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.. _Deprecated features:
Deprecated features
===================
In general features are intended to be supported indefinitely once
introduced into QEMU. In the event that a feature needs to be removed,
it will be listed in this section. The feature will remain functional for the
release in which it was deprecated and one further release. After these two
releases, the feature is liable to be removed. Deprecated features may also
generate warnings on the console when QEMU starts up, or if activated via a
monitor command, however, this is not a mandatory requirement.
Prior to the 2.10.0 release there was no official policy on how
long features would be deprecated prior to their removal, nor
any documented list of which features were deprecated. Thus
any features deprecated prior to 2.10.0 will be treated as if
they were first deprecated in the 2.10.0 release.
What follows is a list of all features currently marked as
deprecated.
System emulator command line arguments
--------------------------------------
``QEMU_AUDIO_`` environment variables and ``-audio-help`` (since 4.0)
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The ``-audiodev`` argument is now the preferred way to specify audio
backend settings instead of environment variables. To ease migration to
the new format, the ``-audiodev-help`` option can be used to convert
the current values of the environment variables to ``-audiodev`` options.
Creating sound card devices and vnc without ``audiodev=`` property (since 4.2)
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When not using the deprecated legacy audio config, each sound card
should specify an ``audiodev=`` property. Additionally, when using
vnc, you should specify an ``audiodev=`` property if you plan to
transmit audio through the VNC protocol.
``-chardev`` backend aliases ``tty`` and ``parport`` (since 6.0)
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``tty`` and ``parport`` are aliases that will be removed. Instead, the
actual backend names ``serial`` and ``parallel`` should be used.
Short-form boolean options (since 6.0)
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Boolean options such as ``share=on``/``share=off`` could be written
in short form as ``share`` and ``noshare``. This is now deprecated
and will cause a warning.
``delay`` option for socket character devices (since 6.0)
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The replacement for the ``nodelay`` short-form boolean option is ``nodelay=on``
rather than ``delay=off``.
Userspace local APIC with KVM (x86, since 6.0)
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Using ``-M kernel-irqchip=off`` with x86 machine types that include a local
APIC is deprecated. The ``split`` setting is supported, as is using
``-M kernel-irqchip=off`` with the ISA PC machine type.
hexadecimal sizes with scaling multipliers (since 6.0)
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Input parameters that take a size value should only use a size suffix
(such as 'k' or 'M') when the base is written in decimal, and not when
the value is hexadecimal. That is, '0x20M' is deprecated, and should
be written either as '32M' or as '0x2000000'.
``-spice password=string`` (since 6.0)
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
This option is insecure because the SPICE password remains visible in
the process listing. This is replaced by the new ``password-secret``
option which lets the password be securely provided on the command
line using a ``secret`` object instance.
``-display sdl,window_close=...`` (since 6.1)
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Use ``-display sdl,window-close=...`` instead (i.e. with a minus instead of
an underscore between "window" and "close").
``-alt-grab`` and ``-display sdl,alt_grab=on`` (since 6.2)
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Use ``-display sdl,grab-mod=lshift-lctrl-lalt`` instead.
``-ctrl-grab`` and ``-display sdl,ctrl_grab=on`` (since 6.2)
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Use ``-display sdl,grab-mod=rctrl`` instead.
``-sdl`` (since 6.2)
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Use ``-display sdl`` instead.
``-curses`` (since 6.2)
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Use ``-display curses`` instead.
``-watchdog`` (since 6.2)
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Use ``-device`` instead.
``-smp`` ("parameter=0" SMP configurations) (since 6.2)
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Specified CPU topology parameters must be greater than zero.
In the SMP configuration, users should either provide a CPU topology
parameter with a reasonable value (greater than zero) or just omit it
and QEMU will compute the missing value.
However, historically it was implicitly allowed for users to provide
a parameter with zero value, which is meaningless and could also possibly
cause unexpected results in the -smp parsing. So support for this kind of
configurations (e.g. -smp 8,sockets=0) is deprecated since 6.2 and will
be removed in the near future, users have to ensure that all the topology
members described with -smp are greater than zero.
Plugin argument passing through ``arg=<string>`` (since 6.1)
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Passing TCG plugins arguments through ``arg=`` is redundant is makes the
command-line less readable, especially when the argument itself consist of a
name and a value, e.g. ``-plugin plugin_name,arg="arg_name=arg_value"``.
Therefore, the usage of ``arg`` is redundant. Single-word arguments are treated
as short-form boolean values, and passed to plugins as ``arg_name=on``.
However, short-form booleans are deprecated and full explicit ``arg_name=on``
form is preferred.
``-drive if=none`` for the sifive_u OTP device (since 6.2)
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Using ``-drive if=none`` to configure the OTP device of the sifive_u
RISC-V machine is deprecated. Use ``-drive if=pflash`` instead.
QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands
------------------------------------
``blockdev-open-tray``, ``blockdev-close-tray`` argument ``device`` (since 2.8)
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qemu-doc: Belatedly document QMP command arg & result deprecation A number of deprecated QMP arguments and results were missed in commit eb22aeca65 "docs: document deprecation policy & deprecated features in appendix" (v2.10.0): * Commit b33945cfff "block: Accept device model name for blockdev-open/close-tray" (v2.8.0) deprecated blockdev-open-tray, blockdev-close-tray argument @device. * Commit fbe2d8163e "block: Accept device model name for eject" (v2.8.0) deprecated eject argument @device. * Commit 70e2cb3bd7 "block: Accept device model name for blockdev-change-medium" (v2.8.0) deprecated blockdev-change-medium argument @device. * Commit 7a9877a026 "block: Accept device model name for block_set_io_throttle" (v2.8.0) deprecated block_set_io_throttle argument @device. * Commit c01c214b69 "block: remove all encryption handling APIs" (v2.10.0) deprecated query-named-block-nodes result @encryption_key_missing and query-block result @inserted member @encryption_key_missing. * Commit c42e8742f5 "block: Use JSON null instead of "" to disable backing file" (v2.10.0) deprecated blockdev-add empty string argument @backing. Since then, we missed a few more: * Commit 3c605f4074 "commit: Add top-node/base-node options" (v3.1.0) deprecated block-commit arguments @base and @top. * Commit 4db6ceb0b5 "block/dirty-bitmap: add recording and busy properties" (v4.0.0) deprecated query-named-block-nodes result @dirty-bitmaps member @status, not just query-block. Make up for all that. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200317115459.31821-2-armbru@redhat.com>
2020-03-17 12:54:26 +01:00
Use argument ``id`` instead.
``eject`` argument ``device`` (since 2.8)
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qemu-doc: Belatedly document QMP command arg & result deprecation A number of deprecated QMP arguments and results were missed in commit eb22aeca65 "docs: document deprecation policy & deprecated features in appendix" (v2.10.0): * Commit b33945cfff "block: Accept device model name for blockdev-open/close-tray" (v2.8.0) deprecated blockdev-open-tray, blockdev-close-tray argument @device. * Commit fbe2d8163e "block: Accept device model name for eject" (v2.8.0) deprecated eject argument @device. * Commit 70e2cb3bd7 "block: Accept device model name for blockdev-change-medium" (v2.8.0) deprecated blockdev-change-medium argument @device. * Commit 7a9877a026 "block: Accept device model name for block_set_io_throttle" (v2.8.0) deprecated block_set_io_throttle argument @device. * Commit c01c214b69 "block: remove all encryption handling APIs" (v2.10.0) deprecated query-named-block-nodes result @encryption_key_missing and query-block result @inserted member @encryption_key_missing. * Commit c42e8742f5 "block: Use JSON null instead of "" to disable backing file" (v2.10.0) deprecated blockdev-add empty string argument @backing. Since then, we missed a few more: * Commit 3c605f4074 "commit: Add top-node/base-node options" (v3.1.0) deprecated block-commit arguments @base and @top. * Commit 4db6ceb0b5 "block/dirty-bitmap: add recording and busy properties" (v4.0.0) deprecated query-named-block-nodes result @dirty-bitmaps member @status, not just query-block. Make up for all that. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200317115459.31821-2-armbru@redhat.com>
2020-03-17 12:54:26 +01:00
Use argument ``id`` instead.
``blockdev-change-medium`` argument ``device`` (since 2.8)
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qemu-doc: Belatedly document QMP command arg & result deprecation A number of deprecated QMP arguments and results were missed in commit eb22aeca65 "docs: document deprecation policy & deprecated features in appendix" (v2.10.0): * Commit b33945cfff "block: Accept device model name for blockdev-open/close-tray" (v2.8.0) deprecated blockdev-open-tray, blockdev-close-tray argument @device. * Commit fbe2d8163e "block: Accept device model name for eject" (v2.8.0) deprecated eject argument @device. * Commit 70e2cb3bd7 "block: Accept device model name for blockdev-change-medium" (v2.8.0) deprecated blockdev-change-medium argument @device. * Commit 7a9877a026 "block: Accept device model name for block_set_io_throttle" (v2.8.0) deprecated block_set_io_throttle argument @device. * Commit c01c214b69 "block: remove all encryption handling APIs" (v2.10.0) deprecated query-named-block-nodes result @encryption_key_missing and query-block result @inserted member @encryption_key_missing. * Commit c42e8742f5 "block: Use JSON null instead of "" to disable backing file" (v2.10.0) deprecated blockdev-add empty string argument @backing. Since then, we missed a few more: * Commit 3c605f4074 "commit: Add top-node/base-node options" (v3.1.0) deprecated block-commit arguments @base and @top. * Commit 4db6ceb0b5 "block/dirty-bitmap: add recording and busy properties" (v4.0.0) deprecated query-named-block-nodes result @dirty-bitmaps member @status, not just query-block. Make up for all that. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200317115459.31821-2-armbru@redhat.com>
2020-03-17 12:54:26 +01:00
Use argument ``id`` instead.
``block_set_io_throttle`` argument ``device`` (since 2.8)
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qemu-doc: Belatedly document QMP command arg & result deprecation A number of deprecated QMP arguments and results were missed in commit eb22aeca65 "docs: document deprecation policy & deprecated features in appendix" (v2.10.0): * Commit b33945cfff "block: Accept device model name for blockdev-open/close-tray" (v2.8.0) deprecated blockdev-open-tray, blockdev-close-tray argument @device. * Commit fbe2d8163e "block: Accept device model name for eject" (v2.8.0) deprecated eject argument @device. * Commit 70e2cb3bd7 "block: Accept device model name for blockdev-change-medium" (v2.8.0) deprecated blockdev-change-medium argument @device. * Commit 7a9877a026 "block: Accept device model name for block_set_io_throttle" (v2.8.0) deprecated block_set_io_throttle argument @device. * Commit c01c214b69 "block: remove all encryption handling APIs" (v2.10.0) deprecated query-named-block-nodes result @encryption_key_missing and query-block result @inserted member @encryption_key_missing. * Commit c42e8742f5 "block: Use JSON null instead of "" to disable backing file" (v2.10.0) deprecated blockdev-add empty string argument @backing. Since then, we missed a few more: * Commit 3c605f4074 "commit: Add top-node/base-node options" (v3.1.0) deprecated block-commit arguments @base and @top. * Commit 4db6ceb0b5 "block/dirty-bitmap: add recording and busy properties" (v4.0.0) deprecated query-named-block-nodes result @dirty-bitmaps member @status, not just query-block. Make up for all that. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200317115459.31821-2-armbru@redhat.com>
2020-03-17 12:54:26 +01:00
Use argument ``id`` instead.
``blockdev-add`` empty string argument ``backing`` (since 2.10)
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qemu-doc: Belatedly document QMP command arg & result deprecation A number of deprecated QMP arguments and results were missed in commit eb22aeca65 "docs: document deprecation policy & deprecated features in appendix" (v2.10.0): * Commit b33945cfff "block: Accept device model name for blockdev-open/close-tray" (v2.8.0) deprecated blockdev-open-tray, blockdev-close-tray argument @device. * Commit fbe2d8163e "block: Accept device model name for eject" (v2.8.0) deprecated eject argument @device. * Commit 70e2cb3bd7 "block: Accept device model name for blockdev-change-medium" (v2.8.0) deprecated blockdev-change-medium argument @device. * Commit 7a9877a026 "block: Accept device model name for block_set_io_throttle" (v2.8.0) deprecated block_set_io_throttle argument @device. * Commit c01c214b69 "block: remove all encryption handling APIs" (v2.10.0) deprecated query-named-block-nodes result @encryption_key_missing and query-block result @inserted member @encryption_key_missing. * Commit c42e8742f5 "block: Use JSON null instead of "" to disable backing file" (v2.10.0) deprecated blockdev-add empty string argument @backing. Since then, we missed a few more: * Commit 3c605f4074 "commit: Add top-node/base-node options" (v3.1.0) deprecated block-commit arguments @base and @top. * Commit 4db6ceb0b5 "block/dirty-bitmap: add recording and busy properties" (v4.0.0) deprecated query-named-block-nodes result @dirty-bitmaps member @status, not just query-block. Make up for all that. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200317115459.31821-2-armbru@redhat.com>
2020-03-17 12:54:26 +01:00
Use argument value ``null`` instead.
``block-commit`` arguments ``base`` and ``top`` (since 3.1)
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qemu-doc: Belatedly document QMP command arg & result deprecation A number of deprecated QMP arguments and results were missed in commit eb22aeca65 "docs: document deprecation policy & deprecated features in appendix" (v2.10.0): * Commit b33945cfff "block: Accept device model name for blockdev-open/close-tray" (v2.8.0) deprecated blockdev-open-tray, blockdev-close-tray argument @device. * Commit fbe2d8163e "block: Accept device model name for eject" (v2.8.0) deprecated eject argument @device. * Commit 70e2cb3bd7 "block: Accept device model name for blockdev-change-medium" (v2.8.0) deprecated blockdev-change-medium argument @device. * Commit 7a9877a026 "block: Accept device model name for block_set_io_throttle" (v2.8.0) deprecated block_set_io_throttle argument @device. * Commit c01c214b69 "block: remove all encryption handling APIs" (v2.10.0) deprecated query-named-block-nodes result @encryption_key_missing and query-block result @inserted member @encryption_key_missing. * Commit c42e8742f5 "block: Use JSON null instead of "" to disable backing file" (v2.10.0) deprecated blockdev-add empty string argument @backing. Since then, we missed a few more: * Commit 3c605f4074 "commit: Add top-node/base-node options" (v3.1.0) deprecated block-commit arguments @base and @top. * Commit 4db6ceb0b5 "block/dirty-bitmap: add recording and busy properties" (v4.0.0) deprecated query-named-block-nodes result @dirty-bitmaps member @status, not just query-block. Make up for all that. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200317115459.31821-2-armbru@redhat.com>
2020-03-17 12:54:26 +01:00
Use arguments ``base-node`` and ``top-node`` instead.
``nbd-server-add`` and ``nbd-server-remove`` (since 5.2)
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Use the more generic commands ``block-export-add`` and ``block-export-del``
instead. As part of this deprecation, where ``nbd-server-add`` used a
single ``bitmap``, the new ``block-export-add`` uses a list of ``bitmaps``.
qapi: Enable enum member introspection to show more than name The next commit will add feature flags to enum members. There's a problem, though: query-qmp-schema shows an enum type's members as an array of member names (SchemaInfoEnum member @values). If it showed an array of objects with a name member, we could simply add more members to these objects. Since it's just strings, we can't. I can see three ways to correct this design mistake: 1. Do it the way we should have done it, plus compatibility goo. We want a ['SchemaInfoEnumMember'] member in SchemaInfoEnum. Since changing @values would be a compatibility break, add a new member @members instead. @values is now redundant. In my testing, output of qemu-system-x86_64's query-qmp-schema grows by 11% (18.5KiB). We can deprecate @values now and drop it later. This will break outmoded clients. Well-behaved clients such as libvirt are expected to break cleanly. 2. Like 1, but omit "boring" elements of @member, and empty @member. @values does not become redundant. @members augments it. Somewhat cumbersome, but output of query-qmp-schema grows only as we make enum members non-boring. There is nothing to deprecate here. 3. Versioned query-qmp-schema. query-qmp-schema provides either @values or @members. The QMP client can select which version it wants. There is no redundant output. We can deprecate old versions and eventually drop them. This will break outmoded clients. Breaking cleanly is easier than for 1. While 1 and 2 operate within the common rules for compatible evolution apply (section "Compatibility considerations" in docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst), 3 bypasses them. Attractive when operating within the rules is just too awkward. Not the case here. This commit implements 1. Libvirt developers prefer it. Deprecate @values in favour of @members. Since query-qmp-schema compatibility is pretty fundamental for management applications, an extended grace period is advised. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Tested-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20211025042405.3762351-2-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-10-25 06:24:01 +02:00
``query-qmp-schema`` return value member ``values`` (since 6.2)
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Member ``values`` in return value elements with meta-type ``enum`` is
deprecated. Use ``members`` instead.
``drive-backup`` (since 6.2)
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Use ``blockdev-backup`` in combination with ``blockdev-add`` instead.
This change primarily separates the creation/opening process of the backup
target with explicit, separate steps. ``blockdev-backup`` uses mostly the
same arguments as ``drive-backup``, except the ``format`` and ``mode``
options are removed in favor of using explicit ``blockdev-create`` and
``blockdev-add`` calls. See :doc:`/interop/live-block-operations` for
details.
Incorrectly typed ``device_add`` arguments (since 6.2)
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Due to shortcomings in the internal implementation of ``device_add``, QEMU
incorrectly accepts certain invalid arguments: Any object or list arguments are
silently ignored. Other argument types are not checked, but an implicit
conversion happens, so that e.g. string values can be assigned to integer
device properties or vice versa.
This is a bug in QEMU that will be fixed in the future so that previously
accepted incorrect commands will return an error. Users should make sure that
all arguments passed to ``device_add`` are consistent with the documented
property types.
``query-sgx`` return value member ``section-size`` (since 7.0)
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Member ``section-size`` in return value elements with meta-type ``uint64`` is
deprecated. Use ``sections`` instead.
``query-sgx-capabilities`` return value member ``section-size`` (since 7.0)
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Member ``section-size`` in return value elements with meta-type ``uint64`` is
deprecated. Use ``sections`` instead.
System accelerators
-------------------
MIPS ``Trap-and-Emul`` KVM support (since 6.0)
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The MIPS ``Trap-and-Emul`` KVM host and guest support has been removed
from Linux upstream kernel, declare it deprecated.
System emulator CPUS
--------------------
target/mips: Deprecate nanoMIPS ISA The nanoMIPS ISA has been announced in 2018 for various projects: GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2018-05/msg00012.html Linux: https://lwn.net/Articles/753605/ QEMU: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg530721.html Unfortunately the links referenced doesn't work anymore (www.mips.com). From this Wayback machine link [1] we can get to a working place to download a toolchain (a more recent release than the one referenced in the announcement mails): http://codescape.mips.com/components/toolchain/nanomips/2018.04-02/downloads.html The toolchain page mention LLVM but simply links http://llvm.org/ where there is no reference on nanoMIPS. The only reference in the GCC mailing list, is the nanoMIPS announcement: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2018-May.txt The developer who authored the announcements have been emailed [2] to ask for more information but all their emails are now bouncing: - Your message to Stefan.Markovic@mips.com couldn't be delivered. - Your message to smarkovic@wavecomp.com couldn't be delivered. - Couldn't deliver the message to the following recipients: Robert.Suchanek@mips.com, matthew.fortune@mips.com, marcin.nowakowski@mips.com Our deprecation policy do not allow feature removal before 2 release, therefore declare the nanoMIPS ISA code deprecated as of QEMU 5.2. This gives time to developers to update the QEMU community, or interested parties to step in to maintain this code. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180904044530/https://www.mips.com/develop/tools/compilers/ [2] https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg756392.html Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Message-Id: <20201102202710.2224691-1-f4bug@amsat.org>
2020-11-02 11:30:30 +01:00
MIPS ``I7200`` CPU Model (since 5.2)
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The ``I7200`` guest CPU relies on the nanoMIPS ISA, which is deprecated
(the ISA has never been upstreamed to a compiler toolchain). Therefore
this CPU is also deprecated.
QEMU API (QAPI) events
----------------------
``MEM_UNPLUG_ERROR`` (since 6.2)
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Use the more generic event ``DEVICE_UNPLUG_GUEST_ERROR`` instead.
System emulator machines
------------------------
PPC 405 ``taihu`` machine (since 7.0)
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The PPC 405 CPU is a system-on-a-chip, so all 405 machines are very similar,
except for some external periphery. However, the periphery of the ``taihu``
machine is hardly emulated at all (e.g. neither the LCD nor the USB part had
been implemented), so there is not much value added by this board. Use the
``ref405ep`` machine instead.
``pc-i440fx-1.4`` up to ``pc-i440fx-1.7`` (since 7.0)
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These old machine types are quite neglected nowadays and thus might have
various pitfalls with regards to live migration. Use a newer machine type
instead.
Backend options
---------------
Using non-persistent backing file with pmem=on (since 6.1)
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This option is used when ``memory-backend-file`` is consumed by emulated NVDIMM
device. However enabling ``memory-backend-file.pmem`` option, when backing file
is (a) not DAX capable or (b) not on a filesystem that support direct mapping
of persistent memory, is not safe and may lead to data loss or corruption in case
of host crash.
Options are:
- modify VM configuration to set ``pmem=off`` to continue using fake NVDIMM
(without persistence guaranties) with backing file on non DAX storage
- move backing file to NVDIMM storage and keep ``pmem=on``
(to have NVDIMM with persistence guaranties).
Device options
--------------
Emulated device options
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``-device virtio-blk,scsi=on|off`` (since 5.0)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The virtio-blk SCSI passthrough feature is a legacy VIRTIO feature. VIRTIO 1.0
and later do not support it because the virtio-scsi device was introduced for
full SCSI support. Use virtio-scsi instead when SCSI passthrough is required.
Note this also applies to ``-device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=on|off``, which is an
alias.
``-device sga`` (since 6.2)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The ``sga`` device loads an option ROM for x86 targets which enables
SeaBIOS to send messages to the serial console. SeaBIOS 1.11.0 onwards
contains native support for this feature and thus use of the option
ROM approach is obsolete. The native SeaBIOS support can be activated
by using ``-machine graphics=off``.
Block device options
''''''''''''''''''''
``"backing": ""`` (since 2.12)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In order to prevent QEMU from automatically opening an image's backing
chain, use ``"backing": null`` instead.
``rbd`` keyvalue pair encoded filenames: ``""`` (since 3.1)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Options for ``rbd`` should be specified according to its runtime options,
like other block drivers. Legacy parsing of keyvalue pair encoded
filenames is useful to open images with the old format for backing files;
These image files should be updated to use the current format.
Example of legacy encoding::
json:{"file.driver":"rbd", "file.filename":"rbd:rbd/name"}
The above, converted to the current supported format::
json:{"file.driver":"rbd", "file.pool":"rbd", "file.image":"name"}
linux-user mode CPUs
--------------------
target/mips: Deprecate nanoMIPS ISA The nanoMIPS ISA has been announced in 2018 for various projects: GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2018-05/msg00012.html Linux: https://lwn.net/Articles/753605/ QEMU: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg530721.html Unfortunately the links referenced doesn't work anymore (www.mips.com). From this Wayback machine link [1] we can get to a working place to download a toolchain (a more recent release than the one referenced in the announcement mails): http://codescape.mips.com/components/toolchain/nanomips/2018.04-02/downloads.html The toolchain page mention LLVM but simply links http://llvm.org/ where there is no reference on nanoMIPS. The only reference in the GCC mailing list, is the nanoMIPS announcement: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2018-May.txt The developer who authored the announcements have been emailed [2] to ask for more information but all their emails are now bouncing: - Your message to Stefan.Markovic@mips.com couldn't be delivered. - Your message to smarkovic@wavecomp.com couldn't be delivered. - Couldn't deliver the message to the following recipients: Robert.Suchanek@mips.com, matthew.fortune@mips.com, marcin.nowakowski@mips.com Our deprecation policy do not allow feature removal before 2 release, therefore declare the nanoMIPS ISA code deprecated as of QEMU 5.2. This gives time to developers to update the QEMU community, or interested parties to step in to maintain this code. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180904044530/https://www.mips.com/develop/tools/compilers/ [2] https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg756392.html Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Message-Id: <20201102202710.2224691-1-f4bug@amsat.org>
2020-11-02 11:30:30 +01:00
MIPS ``I7200`` CPU (since 5.2)
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
The ``I7200`` guest CPU relies on the nanoMIPS ISA, which is deprecated
(the ISA has never been upstreamed to a compiler toolchain). Therefore
this CPU is also deprecated.
Backwards compatibility
-----------------------
Runnability guarantee of CPU models (since 4.1)
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Previous versions of QEMU never changed existing CPU models in
ways that introduced additional host software or hardware
requirements to the VM. This allowed management software to
safely change the machine type of an existing VM without
introducing new requirements ("runnability guarantee"). This
prevented CPU models from being updated to include CPU
vulnerability mitigations, leaving guests vulnerable in the
default configuration.
The CPU model runnability guarantee won't apply anymore to
existing CPU models. Management software that needs runnability
guarantees must resolve the CPU model aliases using the
``alias-of`` field returned by the ``query-cpu-definitions`` QMP
command.
While those guarantees are kept, the return value of
``query-cpu-definitions`` will have existing CPU model aliases
point to a version that doesn't break runnability guarantees
(specifically, version 1 of those CPU models). In future QEMU
versions, aliases will point to newer CPU model versions
depending on the machine type, so management software must
resolve CPU model aliases before starting a virtual machine.
target/mips: Deprecate nanoMIPS ISA The nanoMIPS ISA has been announced in 2018 for various projects: GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2018-05/msg00012.html Linux: https://lwn.net/Articles/753605/ QEMU: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg530721.html Unfortunately the links referenced doesn't work anymore (www.mips.com). From this Wayback machine link [1] we can get to a working place to download a toolchain (a more recent release than the one referenced in the announcement mails): http://codescape.mips.com/components/toolchain/nanomips/2018.04-02/downloads.html The toolchain page mention LLVM but simply links http://llvm.org/ where there is no reference on nanoMIPS. The only reference in the GCC mailing list, is the nanoMIPS announcement: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2018-May.txt The developer who authored the announcements have been emailed [2] to ask for more information but all their emails are now bouncing: - Your message to Stefan.Markovic@mips.com couldn't be delivered. - Your message to smarkovic@wavecomp.com couldn't be delivered. - Couldn't deliver the message to the following recipients: Robert.Suchanek@mips.com, matthew.fortune@mips.com, marcin.nowakowski@mips.com Our deprecation policy do not allow feature removal before 2 release, therefore declare the nanoMIPS ISA code deprecated as of QEMU 5.2. This gives time to developers to update the QEMU community, or interested parties to step in to maintain this code. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180904044530/https://www.mips.com/develop/tools/compilers/ [2] https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg756392.html Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Message-Id: <20201102202710.2224691-1-f4bug@amsat.org>
2020-11-02 11:30:30 +01:00
Guest Emulator ISAs
-------------------
nanoMIPS ISA
''''''''''''
The ``nanoMIPS`` ISA has never been upstreamed to any compiler toolchain.
As it is hard to generate binaries for it, declare it deprecated.
Tools
-----
virtiofsd
'''''''''
There is a new Rust implementation of ``virtiofsd`` at
``https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd``;
since this is now marked stable, new development should be done on that
rather than the existing C version in the QEMU tree.
The C version will still accept fixes and patches that
are already in development for the moment, but will eventually
be deleted from this tree.
New deployments should use the Rust version, and existing systems
should consider moving to it. The command line and feature set
is very close and moving should be simple.