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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/2] GET_EMULATED_CPUID support with "allow-emulat


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/2] GET_EMULATED_CPUID support with "allow-emulation" option
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:45:06 -0600
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On 06/05/2014 01:24 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 04:12:08PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>> In the meantime, we could:
>>
>>  * Include the less fine-tuned "allow-emulation" (or
>>    "allow-experimental-features") option, which is implemented by this
>>    series, for people who use "enforce" and/or don't care too much about
>>    getting other experimental features enabled.
>>  * Wait until somebody implements "feature=force".
> 
> What are you going to do with "allow-emulation" after this? It will
> become an API and you'll have to support it.

If you're worried about not needing the option forever, name it
x-allow-emulation; we've already documented that anything with x- prefix
is fair game for subsequent removal.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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