It appears qemu-kvm does *not* require -machine accel=tcg option.
That problem disappeared after upgrading seabios(!) However leave the
test for qemu -help option, since that's useful to determine if qemu
is completely broken or not.
(cherry picked from commit
5dec7842655dd872bb0fd9fe07f6a9eab6b13bfd)
])
fi
- # qemu since 0.15 requires the -machine accel=tcg option, otherwise
- # it won't start up. QEMU DEVELOPERS, PLEASE ADD CAPABILITIES TESTING.
- AC_MSG_CHECKING([if this qemu has the -machine accel=tcg option])
- if $QEMU -help 2>&1 | grep -sq -- '-machine.*accel.*tcg'; then
- qemu_machine_accel_tcg="-machine accel=tcg"
- AC_MSG_RESULT([$qemu_machine_accel_tcg])
- else
- AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
- fi
-
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for virtio-serial support in $QEMU])
- if $QEMU $qemu_machine_accel_tcg -nographic -device \? 2>&1 | grep -sq virtio-serial; then
+ if $QEMU -nographic -device \? 2>&1 | grep -sq virtio-serial; then
AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
else
AC_MSG_RESULT([no])