Re: [PATCH] system: Try hardware accelerators (KVM, HVF) before software one (TCG)

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 04:05:58PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> As Daniel suggested [*]:
> 
> > We should consider to rank HVF above TCG, on the basis
> > that HW acceleration is faster and should provide a
> > host<->guest security boundary that we don't claim for TCG
> 
> [*] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/Z07YASl2Pd3CPtjE@redhat.com/

Note, my statement above was on the basis that HVF passes all our
functional tests, thus indicating a decent level of confidence
in the correctness of the HVF impl.

If anyone knows any show stopper problems with HVF that would
justify blocking its promotion ahead of TCG.... say now.

> Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
> ---
>  system/vl.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>


With regards,
Daniel
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