Re: [Qemu-devel] About making QEMU to LIBs!

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 26/03/19 12:38, Yang Zhong wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:07:35AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Would separate QEMU binaries be a solution?  I think I am not as opposed
>> to a "q35-lite" machine type these days, I find it preferrable to share
>> the northbridge and southbridge with Q35 and just get rid of IDE, VGA,
>> IOAPIC, legacy ISA devices etc.  The chipset would stay the same as q35
>> so that we keep secure boot, share the code for ACPI stuff (hotplug),
>> and if the OS needs it we can also add back the RTC.
>>
>   Paolo, i am doing NEMU rebase work and will make up these patches for
>   upstream. You do not want to add extra machine type for x86 ? There
>   are two type of light weight solutions in our intel
>   1) qemu-lite
>      PVH has been merged into Qemu 4.0, which seems there is no chance
>      for our skip bios solution for upstream?
>   2) NEMU
>      Our previous plan is to upstream NEMU's virt platform into Qemu.

Personally I don't see any advantage in the virt platform compared to
q35-lite.  Other maintainers may disagree, in which case I will happily
defer to their judgment.

Paolo