Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options

[Markus Armbruster]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

> On 07/05/2018 07:37, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> I'm not that sure anymore about -no-kvm.  It can come in handy for
>>> distros (*cough* RHEL *cough) that only ship a qemu-kvm binary with
>>> default accelerator "-machine accel=kvm:tcg".
>>>
>>> Yeah, "-accel tcg" is only a few characters later, but it is a
>>> relatively recent addition.
>>
>> 2012 is "relatively recent" in the alternate RHEL universe, perhaps :)
>
> Well, that's for "-machine accel=tcg" which is quite a mouthful.

"-M accel=tcg" is a whopping *two* characters more than "-accel tcg".

> "-accel tcg" was added in 2.9, about a year ago (commit 8d4e9146b3,
> "tcg: add options for enabling MTTCG", 2017-02-24).

Yes, I confused the two.