Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 10:31:00AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 10:28 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> 
> wrote:
> > > I wonder if we should take this a step further and rename 
> > > qemu-system-x86_64
> > > to qemu-system-x86!  Distros can if they wish create symlinks to both
> > > qemu-system-i386 and qemu-system-x86_64.
> >
> > I can't help feeling this just creates a new upgrade burden for distros
> > for no obvious win.
> 
> We can create the symlinks on install as well during the deprecation
> period. It doesn't have to be done by distros.

What's the actual win though ?  Why would anyone want to create guests
using qemu-system-x86, if both qemu-system-i386 / qemu-system-x86_64
still exist indefinitely for backwards compat.  What does having a
qemu-system-x86 add that can't be achieve just though hardlink
between the two existing binaries ?

With regards,
Daniel
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