Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/arm: Don't start a QEMU for backend

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/arm: Don't start a QEMU 
for backend"):
> On Wed, 8 May 2013, Julien Grall wrote:
> > /usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386 doesn't exist on ARM. We need to check
> > if the file exists/is executable and starts it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Good idea but we should actually do that only on ARM: we don't want to
> hide bad configurations on x86.

Are you sure ?  This seems wrong to me.  The purpose of our global
qemu is to provide disk backends when we select qdev as the backend,
right ?

I don't understand why this doesn't apply on ARM.  Perhaps we should
be running a different executable ?

Ian.

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