On 25/01/2023 13.09, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 11:20:53AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
The HAXM project has been retired (see https://github.com/intel/haxm#status),
so we should mark the code in QEMU as deprecated (and finally remove it
unless somebody else picks the project up again - which is quite unlikely
since there are now whpx and hvf on these operating systems, too).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>
---
docs/about/deprecated.rst | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 3f4d678eb4..da2e6fe63d 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@ form is preferred.
The HPET setting has been turned into a machine property.
Use ``-machine hpet=off`` instead.
+``-accel hax`` (since 8.0)
+''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The HAXM project has been retired (see https://github.com/intel/haxm#status).
+Use "whpx" (on Windows) or "hvf" (on macOS) instead.
+
Should we print a warning message from meson when someone enables this ?
Or maybe rather to hax_accel_init() , so that people who run the binary see
the message?
... I can add it there (though I have no means of testing it).
Thomas
