Similar to "-no-hpet", the "-no-acpi" switch is a legacy command
line option that should be replaced with the "acpi" machine parameter
nowadays.
Message-Id: <20230224090543.1129677-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Historically, the critical dependency for both building and running
QEMU has been the distro packages. Because QEMU is written in C and C's
package management has been tied to distros (at least if you do not want
to bundle libraries with the binary, otherwise I suppose you could use
something like conda or wrapdb), C dependencies of QEMU would target the
version that is shipped in relatively old but still commonly used distros.
For non-C libraries, however, the situation is different, as these
languages have their own package management tool (cpan, pip, gem, npm,
and so on). For some of these languages, the amount of dependencies
for even a simple program can easily balloon to the point that many
distros have given up on packaging non-C code. For this reason, it has
become increasingly normal for developers to download dependencies into
a self-contained local environment, instead of relying on distro packages.
Fortunately, this affects QEMU only at build time, as qemu.git does
not package non-C artifacts such as the qemu.qmp package; but still,
as we make more use of Python, we experience a clash between a support
policy that is written for the C world, and dependencies (both direct
and indirect) that increasingly do not care for the distro versions
and are quick at moving past Python runtime versions that are declared
end-of-life.
For example, Python 3.6 has been EOL'd since December 2021 and Meson 0.62
(released the following March) already dropped support for it. Yet,
Python 3.6 is the default version of the Python runtime for RHEL/CentOS
8 and SLE 15, respectively the penultimate and the most recent version
of two distros that QEMU would like to support. (It is also the version
used by Ubuntu 18.04, but QEMU stopped supporting it in April 2022).
There are good reasons to move forward with the deprecation of Python
3.6 in QEMU as well: completing the configure->meson switch (which
requires Meson 0.63), and making the QAPI generator fully typed (which
requires newer versions of not just mypy but also Python, due to PEP563).
Fortunately, these long-term support distros do include newer versions of
the Python runtime. However, these more recent runtimes only come with
a very small subset of the Python packages that the distro includes.
Because most dependencies are optional tests (avocado, mypy, flake8)
and Meson is bundled with QEMU, the most noticeably missing package is
Sphinx (and the readthedocs theme). There are four possibilities:
* we change the support policy and stop supporting CentOS 8 and SLE 15;
not a good idea since CentOS 8 is not an unreasonable distro for us to
want to continue to support
* we keep supporting Python 3.6 until CentOS 8 and SLE 15 stop being
supported. This is a possibility---but we may want to revise the support
policy anyway because SLE 16 has not even been released, so this would
mean delaying those desirable reasons for perhaps three years;
* we support Python 3.6 just for building documentation, i.e. we are
careful not to use Python 3.7+ features in our Sphinx extensions but are
free to use them elsewhere. Besides being more complicated to understand
for developers, this can be quite limiting; parts of the QAPI generator
run at sphinx-build time, which would exclude one of the areas which
would benefit from a newer version of the runtime;
* we only support Python 3.7+, which means CentOS 8 CI and users
have to either install Sphinx from pip or disable documentation.
This proposed update to the support policy chooses the last of these
possibilities. It does by modifying three aspects of the support
policy:
* it introduces different support periods for *native* vs. *non-native*
dependencies. Non-native dependencies are currently Python ones only,
and for simplicity the policy only mentions Python; however, the concept
generalizes to other languages with a well-known upstream package
manager, that users of older distributions can fetch dependencies from;
* it opens up the possibility of taking non-native dependencies from their
own package index instead of using the version in the distribution. The
wording right now is specific to dependencies that are only required at
build time. In the future we may have to refine it if, for example, parts
of QEMU will be written in Rust; in that case, crates would be handled
in a similar way to submodules and vendored in the release tarballs.
* it mentions specifically that optional build dependencies are excluded
from the platform policy. Tools such as mypy don't affect the ability
to build QEMU and move fast enough that distros cannot standardize on
a single version of them (for example RHEL9 does not package them at
all, nor does it run them at rpmbuild time). In other cases, such as
cross compilers, we have alternatives.
Right now, non-native dependencies have to be download manually by
running "pip" before "configure". In the future, it will be desirable
for configure to set up a virtual environment and download them in the
same way that it populates git submodules (but, in this case, without
vendoring them in the release tarballs).
Just like with submodules, this would make things easier for people
that can afford accessing the network in their build environment; the
option to populate the build environment manually would remain for
people whose build machines lack network access. The change to the
support policy neither requires nor forbids this future change.
[Thanks to Daniel P. Berrangé, Peter Maydell and others for discussions
that were copied or summarized in the above commit message]
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Move the deprecation message, since it's now gone.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This has been replaced by the 'password-secret' option,
which references a 'secret' object instance.
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Support for referencing secret objects was added in
commit b189346eb1
Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Jan 21 14:19:21 2016 +0000
iscsi: add support for getting CHAP password via QCryptoSecret API
The existing 'password' option is overdue for deprecation and
subsequent removal.
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
It's been deprecated since QEMU v6.2, so it should be OK to
finally remove this now.
Message-Id: <20230209161540.1054669-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
As gprof relies on instrumentation you rarely get useful data compared
to a real optimised build. Lets deprecate the build option and
simplify the CI configuration as a result.
Buglink: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1338
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230131094224.861621-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
- update playbooks for custom runners
- add section timing support to gitlab
- upgrade fedora images to 37
- purge perl from the build system and deps
- disable unstable tests in CI
- improve intro, emulation and semihosting docs
- semihosting bug fix and O_BINARY default
- add memory-sve test
- fix some races in qht
- improve plugin handling of memory helpers
- optimise plugin hooks
- fix some plugin deadlocks
- reduce win64-cross build time by dropping some targets
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Merge tag 'pull-jan-omnibus-020223-1' of https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu into staging
Testing, docs, semihosting and plugin updates
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* tag 'pull-jan-omnibus-020223-1' of https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu: (36 commits)
gitlab: cut even more from cross-win64-system build
plugins: Iterate on cb_lists in qemu_plugin_user_exit
cpu-exec: assert that plugin_mem_cbs is NULL after execution
tcg: exclude non-memory effecting helpers from instrumentation
translator: always pair plugin_gen_insn_{start, end} calls
plugins: fix optimization in plugin_gen_disable_mem_helpers
plugins: make qemu_plugin_user_exit's locking order consistent with fork_start's
util/qht: use striped locks under TSAN
thread: de-const qemu_spin_destroy
util/qht: add missing atomic_set(hashes[i])
cpu: free cpu->tb_jmp_cache with RCU
tests/tcg: add memory-sve test for aarch64
semihosting: add O_BINARY flag in host_open for NT compatibility
semihosting: Write back semihosting data before completion callback
docs: add an introduction to the system docs
semihosting: add semihosting section to the docs
docs: add a new section to outline emulation support
docs: add hotlinks to about preface text
MAINTAINERS: Fix the entry for tests/tcg/nios2
gitlab: wrap up test results for custom runners
...
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
The main reason to do this is to document our O_BINARY implementation
decision somewhere. However I've also moved some of the implementation
details out of qemu-options and added links between the two. As a
bonus I've highlighted the scary warnings about host access with the
appropriate RST tags.
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230124180127.1881110-22-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
This affects both system and user mode emulation so we should probably
list it up front.
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230124180127.1881110-21-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Make it easier to navigate the documentation.
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230124180127.1881110-20-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
The HAXM project has been retired (see https://github.com/intel/haxm#status),
so we should mark the code in QEMU as deprecated (and finally remove it
unless somebody else picks the project up again - which is quite unlikely
since there are now whpx and hvf on these operating systems, too).
Message-Id: <20230126121034.1035138-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
'-drive if=none' is meant for configuring back-end devices only, so this
got marked as deprecated in QEMU 6.2. Users should now only use the new
way with '-drive if=pflash' instead.
Message-Id: <20230112083921.887828-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
This support was limited to the Malta board, drop it.
I do not have a machine that can run VZ KVM, so I am assuming
that it works for -M malta as well.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20221221091718.71844-1-philmd@linaro.org>
* Rework and improvements of the EINTR handling by Nikita
* Deprecate the -no-hpet command line option
* Disable the qtests in the 32-bit Windows CI job again
* Some other misc fixes here and there
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Merge tag 'pull-request-2023-01-09' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu into staging
* s390x header clean-ups from Philippe
* Rework and improvements of the EINTR handling by Nikita
* Deprecate the -no-hpet command line option
* Disable the qtests in the 32-bit Windows CI job again
* Some other misc fixes here and there
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* tag 'pull-request-2023-01-09' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu:
.gitlab-ci.d/windows: Do not run the qtests in the msys2-32bit job
error handling: Use RETRY_ON_EINTR() macro where applicable
Refactoring: refactor TFR() macro to RETRY_ON_EINTR()
docs/interop: Change the vnc-ledstate-Pseudo-encoding doc into .rst
i386: Deprecate the -no-hpet QEMU command line option
tests/qtest/bios-tables-test: Replace -no-hpet with hpet=off machine parameter
tests/readconfig: spice doesn't support unix socket on windows yet
target/s390x: Restrict sysemu/reset.h to system emulation
target/s390x/tcg/excp_helper: Restrict system headers to sysemu
target/s390x/tcg/misc_helper: Remove unused "memory.h" include
hw/s390x/pv: Restrict Protected Virtualization to sysemu
exec/memory: Expose memory_region_access_valid()
MAINTAINERS: Add MIPS-related docs and configs to the MIPS architecture section
tests/vm: Update get_default_jobs() to work on non-x86_64 non-KVM hosts
qemu-iotests/stream-under-throttle: do not shutdown QEMU
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
The HPET setting has been turned into a machine property a while ago
already, so we should finally do the next step and deprecate the
legacy CLI option, too.
Message-Id: <20221229114913.260400-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
-machine kernel-irqchip=off is broken for many guest OSes; kernel-irqchip=split
is the replacement that works, so remove the deprecated support for the former.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This was deprecated in 6.2 and is ready to go. It removes quite a bit
of code that handled the registration of watchdog models.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
- reduce number of targets for cross_user_build
- update avocado xlnx_versal test with new binaries
- add explicit timeouts to a number of avocado TCG tests
- reduce default timeout to 120s
- update lcitool to support cross-amd64
- flatten a number of docker cross containers
- clean up stale qemu/debian10 dependencies
- remove obsolete Fedora VM test
- add configure workaround for meson --disable-pie bug
- disable --static-pie for aarch64 gitlab runner
- update aarch32/aarch64 jobs to 22.04
- deprecate 32 bit big-endian MIPS as a host
- remove FROM qemu/ support from docker.py
- remove Debian base images now everything is flat
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* tag 'pull-testing-next-200922-2' of https://github.com/stsquad/qemu: (30 commits)
tests/docker: remove the Debian base images
tests/docker: remove FROM qemu/ support from docker.py
tests/docker: update and flatten debian-toolchain
tests/docker: update and flatten debian-hexagon-cross
tests/docker: update and flatten debian-loongarch-cross
tests/docker: update and flatten debian-amd64-cross
tests/lcitool: bump to latest version
tests/docker: update and flatten debian-all-test-cross
tests/docker: flatten debian-riscv64-test-cross
Deprecate 32 bit big-endian MIPS
gitlab-ci: update aarch32/aarch64 custom runner jobs
gitlab-ci/custom-runners: Disable -static-pie for ubuntu-20.04-aarch64
configure: explicitly set cflags for --disable-pie
tests/vm: Remove obsolete Fedora VM test
tests/docker: remove amd64 qemu/debian10 dependency
tests/docker: remove tricore qemu/debian10 dependency
tests/docker: flatten debian-powerpc-test-cross
tests/docker: update and flatten debian-sparc64-cross
tests/docker: update and flatten debian-sh4-cross
tests/docker: update and flatten debian-mips64-cross
...
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
It's becoming harder to maintain a cross-compiler to test this host
architecture as the old stable Debian 10 ("Buster") moved into LTS
which supports fewer architectures. For now:
- mark it's deprecation in the docs
- downgrade the containers to build TCG tests only
- drop the cross builds from our CI
Users with an appropriate toolchain and user-space can still take
their chances building it.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20220914155950.804707-22-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Let's use a more appropriate wording for this command line and config
file option. The old ones are still accepted for compatibility reasons,
but marked as deprecated now so that it could be removed in a future
version of QEMU.
This change is based on earlier patches from Philippe Mathieu-Daudé,
with the idea for the new option name suggested by BALATON Zoltan.
And while we're at it, replace the "?" in the help text with "help"
since that does not have the problem of conflicting with the wildcard
character of the shells.
Message-Id: <20220727092135.302915-2-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Kostiuk <kkostiuk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Since commit fbf43c7dbf ("target/riscv: enable riscv kvm accel"),
KVM accelerator is supported on RISC-V. Let's document it.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Message-Id: <20220719082635.3741878-1-bin.meng@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
It has been deprecated since 7.0.
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Message-Id: <20220809153904.485018-2-clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Hongren (Zenithal) Zheng <i@zenithal.me>
Message-id: 20220812075642.1200578-1-sw@weilnetz.de
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
These changes match those made in the following libvirt commits:
2ac78307af docs: Clarify our stance on backported packages
78cffd450a docs: Spell out our policy concerning minor releases
Since QEMU's platform support policy is based on libvirt's, it
makes sense to mirror these recent changes made to the latter.
The policy is not altered significantly - we're simply spelling
out some rules that were likely already being implicitly
enforced.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The note about the removal of '-soundhw' has been accidentally added
to the section of removed "linux-user mode CPUs" ... it should reside
in the section about removed "System emulator command line arguments"
instead.
Fixes: 039a68373c ("introduce -audio as a replacement for -soundhw")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
Message-Id: <20220802075611.346835-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Commit cf60ccc330 ("cutils: Introduce bundle mechanism") introduced
a Python script to populate a bundle directory using os.symlink() to
point to the binaries in the pc-bios directory of the source tree.
Commit 882084a04a ("datadir: Use bundle mechanism") removed previous
logic in pc-bios/meson.build to create a link/copy of pc-bios binaries
in the build tree so os.symlink() is the way to go.
However os.symlink() may fail [1] on Windows if an unprivileged Windows
user started the QEMU build process, which results in QEMU executables
generated in the build tree not able to load the default BIOS/firmware
images due to symbolic links not present in the bundle directory.
This commits updates the documentation by adding such caveats for users
who want to build QEMU on the Windows platform.
[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.symlink
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20220719135014.764981-1-bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Developers often run QEMU without installing. The bundle mechanism
allows to look up files which should be present in installation even in
such a situation.
It is a general mechanism and can find any files in the installation
tree. The build tree will have a new directory, qemu-bundle, to
represent what files the installation tree would have for reference by
the executables.
Note that it abandons compatibility with Windows older than 8. The
extended support for the prior version, 7 ended more than 2 years ago,
and it is unlikely that someone would like to run the latest QEMU on
such an old system.
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220624145039.49929-3-akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
In 60592cfed2 ("hw/arm/virt: dt: add kaslr-seed property"), the
kaslr-seed property was added, but the equally as important rng-seed
property was forgotten about, which has identical semantics for a
similar purpose. This commit implements it in exactly the same way as
kaslr-seed. It then changes the name of the disabling option to reflect
that this has more to do with randomness vs determinism, rather than
something particular about kaslr.
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
[PMM: added deprecated.rst section for the deprecation]
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
nanoMIPS ISA support in QEMU is actively used by MediaTek and is
planned to be maintained and potentially extended by MediaTek in
future.
Un-orphan nanoMIPS ISA support in QEMU by setting a maintainer from
MediaTek and remove deprecation notes from documentation as well.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Pejic <stefan.pejic@syrmia.com>
Message-Id: <20220504110403.613168-8-stefan.pejic@syrmia.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Since version 5.2 commit 6eb7a07129 ("hw/block/nvme: change controller
pci id"), the emulated NVMe controller has defaulted to a non-Intel PCI
identifier.
Deprecate the compatibility parameter so we can get rid of it once and
for all.
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: Klaus Jensen <k.jensen@samsung.com>
We cannot provide auto-generated unique or persistent namespace
identifiers (EUI64, NGUID, UUID) easily. Since 6.1, namespaces have been
assigned a generated EUI64 of the form "52:54:00:<namespace counter>".
This is will be unique within a QEMU instance, but not globally.
Revert that this is assigned automatically and immediately deprecate the
compatibility parameter. Users can opt-in to this with the
`eui64-default=on` device parameter or set it explicitly with
`eui64=UINT64`.
Cc: libvir-list@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Klaus Jensen <k.jensen@samsung.com>
We have "-sdl" and "-curses", but no "-gtk" and no "-cocoa" ...
these old-style options are rather confusing than helpful nowadays.
Now that the deprecation period is over, let's remove them, so we
get a cleaner interface (where "-display" is the only way to select
the user interface).
Message-Id: <20220519155625.1414365-4-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Dropping these deprecated parameters simplifies further refactoring
(e.g. QAPIfication is easier without underscores in the name).
Message-Id: <20220519155625.1414365-2-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Our support statement for Windows currently talks about "Vista / Server
2008" - which is related to the API of Windows, and this is not easy
to understand for the non-technical users. Additionally, glib sets the
_WIN32_WINNT macro to 0x0601 already, which indicates the Windows 7 API,
so QEMU effectively depends on the Windows 7 API, too.
Thus let's bump the _WIN32_WINNT setting in QEMU to the same level as
glib uses and adjust our support statement in the documentation to
something similar that we're using for Linux and the *BSD systems
(i.e. only the two most recent versions), which should hopefully be
easier to understand for the users now.
And since we're nowadays also compile-testing QEMU with MSYS2 on Windows
itself, I think we could mention this build environment here, too.
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/880
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Message-Id: <20220513063958.1181443-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
-audio is used like "-audio pa,model=sb16". It is almost as simple as
-soundhw, but it reuses the -audiodev parsing machinery and attaches an
audiodev to the newly-created device. The main 'feature' is that
it knows about adding the codec device for model=intel-hda, and adding
the audiodev to the codec device.
In the future, it could be extended to support default models or
builtin devices, just like -nic, or even a default backend. For now,
keep it simple.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The ``opened=on`` option in the command line or QMP ``object-add`` either had
no effect (if ``opened`` was the last option) or caused errors. The property
is therefore useless and was deprecated in 6.0; make it read-only now.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The ``loaded=on`` option in the command line or QMP ``object-add`` either had
no effect (if ``loaded`` was the last option) or caused options to be
effectively ignored as if they were not given. The property is therefore
useless and was deprecated in 6.0; make it read-only now.
The patch is best reviewed with "-b".
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Icelake, is the codename for Intel 3rd generation Xeon Scalable server
processors. There isn't ever client variants. This "Icelake-Client" CPU
model was added wrongly and imaginarily.
It has been deprecated since v5.2, now it's time to remove it completely
from code.
Signed-off-by: Robert Hoo <robert.hu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1647247859-4947-1-git-send-email-robert.hu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Like -set and -readconfig, it would not really be too hard to
extend -writeconfig to parsing mechanisms other than QemuOpts.
However, the uses of -writeconfig are substantially more
limited, as it is generally easier to write the configuration
by hand in the first place. In addition, -writeconfig does
not even try to detect cases where it prints incorrect
syntax (for example if values have a quote in them, since
qemu_config_parse does not support any kind of escaping.
Just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220414145721.326866-1-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Add possibility to change addresses where VNC server listens for new
connections. Prior to 6.0 this functionality was available through
'change' qmp command which was deleted.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220401143936.356460-3-vsementsov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Users requiring FIPS support must build QEMU with either the libgcrypt
or gnutls libraries as the crytography backend.
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The official spelling does not use camel case.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20220422083403.1082924-1-sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Thomas Huth
Peter Maydell
Paolo Bonzini
Dr. David Alan Gilbert
Daniel P. Berrangé
Alex Bennée
Stefan Hajnoczi
Bin Meng
Cédric Le Goater
Stefan Weil
Andrea Bolognani
Akihiko Odaki
Jason A. Donenfeld
Stefan Pejic
Klaus Jensen
Robert Hoo
Richard Henderson
Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy