From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:04:21 -0500
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Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> Il 01/10/2012 15:19, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>> I think it's time for the distros to drop qemu-kvm and just ship
>> qemu.git.  Is there anything else that needs to happen to make that
>> switch?
>
> Perhaps change the default to -machine accel=kvm:tcg?
>
> Paolo

I would be in favor of:

#if defined(CONFIG_KVM)
accel=kvm
#else
accel=tcg
#endif

If KVM is available for your target, you almost certainly want to use
it.

I'd be very happy with that change for 1.3.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori