Qemu与kvm相关的命令行参数含意

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 12:27 PM, lei yang <yanglei.fage@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the different with below combos?


The difference is historical, it's just how the command-line options
evolved over time.


> 1)qemu --enable-kvm


The old way.  Still useful because it's slightly easier to type than
--machine accel=kvm.


> 2)qemu accel=kvm


The "modern" way.


> 3)qemu without above parameters when kvm kmod has been load


There is a difference in behavior between QEMU and qemu-kvm here:


QEMU uses TCG and not KVM by default, regardless of whether the kvm.ko
module has been loaded or not.  qemu-kvm uses KVM by default, if
available.


The qemu-kvm fork has been retired so it's best not to rely on this
behavior.  Future distro packages will be built from QEMU and unless a
code change is made, the default accelerator is TCG.


Stefan