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Use qemu-kvm as installation name

Message ID 1232726884-14747-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de (mailing list archive)
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Alexander Graf Jan. 23, 2009, 4:08 p.m. UTC
Most distributions use an executable name of qemu-kvm for kvm's
qemu version.
This is mostly because Qemu was there before and there usually is
a package with a binary called qemu-system-x86_64 already.

In order to not confuse people why distributions do things so

Comments

Avi Kivity Feb. 5, 2009, 3:44 p.m. UTC | #1
Alexander Graf wrote:
> Most distributions use an executable name of qemu-kvm for kvm's
> qemu version.
> This is mostly because Qemu was there before and there usually is
> a package with a binary called qemu-system-x86_64 already.
>
> In order to not confuse people why distributions do things so
> differently from upstream, let's call the binary qemu-kvm in make
> install, so it's always qemu-kvm.
>
> Inspired by Anthony.
>   

While it does make sense, this will break a ton of existing scripts (and 
my testsuite...).  Also, upsteam qemu also does not rename qemu even 
when kvm support is enabled.
Alexander Graf Feb. 5, 2009, 4:05 p.m. UTC | #2
Avi Kivity wrote:
> Alexander Graf wrote:
>> Most distributions use an executable name of qemu-kvm for kvm's
>> qemu version.
>> This is mostly because Qemu was there before and there usually is
>> a package with a binary called qemu-system-x86_64 already.
>>
>> In order to not confuse people why distributions do things so
>> differently from upstream, let's call the binary qemu-kvm in make
>> install, so it's always qemu-kvm.
>>
>> Inspired by Anthony.
>>   
>
> While it does make sense, this will break a ton of existing scripts
> (and my testsuite...).  Also, upsteam qemu also does not rename qemu
> even when kvm support is enabled.


Wouldn't your scripts simply run qemu-system-x86_64 from the build
directory? The patch only affects make install for exactly that reason.
And at least from a distro perspective, symlinking qemu-kvm to
qemu-system-x86_64 when things get stable in upstream qemu sounds fairly
easy :-).

Alex
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differently from upstream, let's call the binary qemu-kvm in make
install, so it's always qemu-kvm.

Inspired by Anthony.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
---
 qemu/Makefile.target |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qemu/Makefile.target b/qemu/Makefile.target
index 8f69af7..def3e2b 100644
--- a/qemu/Makefile.target
+++ b/qemu/Makefile.target
@@ -824,9 +824,13 @@  clean:
 	rm -f *.d */*.d tcg/*.o
 
 install: all
+ifeq ($(PROGS),qemu-system-x86_64)
+	$(INSTALL) -m 755 $(PROGS) "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/qemu-kvm"
+else
 ifneq ($(PROGS),)
 	$(INSTALL) -m 755 $(PROGS) "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)"
 endif
+endif
 
 # Include automatically generated dependency files
 -include $(wildcard *.d */*.d)