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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/13] xen: groundwork for xen s

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:49:05PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> But when running on xen we want being able to qemu tell it should *not*
>> use the xen hypervisor but emulate things, thus -xen-emulate.
> 
> Oh, i see what you mean. Existing naming practice would suggest naming
> it -no-xenhv or just -no-xen

Well, as you are going to run a xen guest -no-xen wouldn't be very
intuitive IMHO.  -no-xenhv is only slightly better.

> All these '-no-XXX' args are getting a little silly though. I'd rather
> tell QEMU what I *do* want, than what I don't want. A generic arg
> '-accelerator none|xen|kvm|kqemu' might be worth considering in the future.

Agreed.

cheers,
  Gerd


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