Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary

2023-03-06 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 02:25:46PM +, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 03:18:23PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > > On 06/03/2023 15.06, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 02:48:16PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > > > > On 06/03/2023 10.27, Daniel P. Berrangé wr

Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary

2023-03-06 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 6/3/23 15:06, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 02:48:16PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: On 06/03/2023 10.27, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 09:46:55AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: [...] If a 32-bit CPU guest +environment should be enforced, you can switch off th

Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary

2023-03-06 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 03:18:23PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 06/03/2023 15.06, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 02:48:16PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > > > On 06/03/2023 10.27, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 09:46:55AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: >

Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary

2023-03-06 Thread Thomas Huth
On 06/03/2023 15.06, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 02:48:16PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: On 06/03/2023 10.27, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 09:46:55AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: [...] If a 32-bit CPU guest +environment should be enforced, you can switch of

Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary

2023-03-06 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 02:48:16PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 06/03/2023 10.27, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 09:46:55AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > > > [...] If a 32-bit CPU guest > > > +environment should be enforced, you can switch off the "long mode" CPU > > > +flag,

Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary

2023-03-06 Thread Thomas Huth
On 06/03/2023 10.27, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 09:46:55AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: [...] If a 32-bit CPU guest +environment should be enforced, you can switch off the "long mode" CPU +flag, e.g. with ``-cpu max,lm=off``. I had the idea to check this today and this is n

Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary

2023-03-06 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 10:54:15AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 06/03/2023 10.27, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 09:46:55AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > > > Aside from not supporting KVM on 32-bit hosts, the qemu-system-x86_64 > > > binary is a proper superset of the qemu-sy

Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary

2023-03-06 Thread Thomas Huth
On 06/03/2023 10.27, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 09:46:55AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: Aside from not supporting KVM on 32-bit hosts, the qemu-system-x86_64 binary is a proper superset of the qemu-system-i386 binary. With the 32-bit host support being deprecated, it is now a

Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary

2023-03-06 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 09:46:55AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > Aside from not supporting KVM on 32-bit hosts, the qemu-system-x86_64 > binary is a proper superset of the qemu-system-i386 binary. With the > 32-bit host support being deprecated, it is now also possible to > deprecate the qemu-system-

[PATCH v4 2/5] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary

2023-03-06 Thread Thomas Huth
Aside from not supporting KVM on 32-bit hosts, the qemu-system-x86_64 binary is a proper superset of the qemu-system-i386 binary. With the 32-bit host support being deprecated, it is now also possible to deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary. With regards to 32-bit KVM support in the x86 Linux ker