QEMU With E2K User Support
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Error messages refer to nodes of the QObject being visited by name.
Trouble is the names are sometimes less than helpful:
* The name of the root QObject is whatever @name argument got passed
to the visitor, except NULL gets mapped to "null". We commonly pass
NULL. Not good.
Avoiding errors "at the root" mitigates. For instance,
visit_start_struct() can only fail when the visited object is not a
dictionary, and we commonly ensure it is beforehand.
* The name of a QDict's member is the member key. Good enough only
when this happens to be unique.
* The name of a QList's member is "null". Not good.
Improve error messages by referring to nodes by path instead, as
follows:
* The path of the root QObject is whatever @name argument got passed
to the visitor, except NULL gets mapped to "<anonymous>".
* The path of a root QDict's member is the member key.
* The path of a root QList's member is "[%u]", where %u is the list
index, starting at zero.
* The path of a non-root QDict's member is the path of the QDict
concatenated with "." and the member key.
* The path of a non-root QList's member is the path of the QList
concatenated with "[%u]", where %u is the list index.
For example, the incorrect QMP command
{ "execute": "blockdev-add", "arguments": { "node-name": "foo", "driver": "raw", "file": {"driver": "file" } } }
now fails with
{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Parameter 'file.filename' is missing"}}
instead of
{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Parameter 'filename' is missing"}}
and
{ "execute": "input-send-event", "arguments": { "device": "bar", "events": [ [] ] } }
now fails with
{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Invalid parameter type for 'events[0]', expected: object"}}
instead of
{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Invalid parameter type for 'null', expected: QDict"}}
Aside: calling the thing "parameter" is suboptimal for QMP, because
the root object is "arguments" there.
The qobject output visitor doesn't have this problem because it should
not fail. Same for dealloc and clone visitors.
The string visitors don't have this problem because they visit just
one value, whose name needs to be passed to the visitor as @name. The
string output visitor shouldn't fail anyway.
The options visitor uses QemuOpts names. Their name space is flat, so
the use of QDict member keys as names is fine. NULL names used with
roots and lists could conceivably result in bad error messages. Left
for another day.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1488544368-30622-15-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
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| block | ||
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| chardev | ||
| contrib | ||
| crypto | ||
| default-configs | ||
| disas | ||
| docs | ||
| dtc@fa8bc7f928 | ||
| fpu | ||
| fsdev | ||
| gdb-xml | ||
| hw | ||
| include | ||
| io | ||
| libdecnumber | ||
| linux-headers | ||
| linux-user | ||
| migration | ||
| nbd | ||
| net | ||
| pc-bios | ||
| pixman@87eea99e44 | ||
| po | ||
| qapi | ||
| qga | ||
| qobject | ||
| qom | ||
| replay | ||
| roms | ||
| scripts | ||
| slirp | ||
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| target | ||
| tcg | ||
| tests | ||
| trace | ||
| ui | ||
| util | ||
| .dir-locals.el | ||
| .exrc | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .gitmodules | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| .shippable.yml | ||
| .travis.yml | ||
| accel.c | ||
| arch_init.c | ||
| atomic_template.h | ||
| balloon.c | ||
| block.c | ||
| blockdev-nbd.c | ||
| blockdev.c | ||
| blockjob.c | ||
| bootdevice.c | ||
| bt-host.c | ||
| bt-vhci.c | ||
| Changelog | ||
| CODING_STYLE | ||
| configure | ||
| COPYING | ||
| COPYING.LIB | ||
| cpu-exec-common.c | ||
| cpu-exec.c | ||
| cpus-common.c | ||
| cpus.c | ||
| cputlb.c | ||
| device_tree.c | ||
| device-hotplug.c | ||
| disas.c | ||
| dma-helpers.c | ||
| dump.c | ||
| exec.c | ||
| gdbstub.c | ||
| HACKING | ||
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| hmp-commands-info.hx | ||
| hmp-commands.hx | ||
| hmp.c | ||
| hmp.h | ||
| ioport.c | ||
| iothread.c | ||
| kvm-all.c | ||
| kvm-stub.c | ||
| LICENSE | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
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| Makefile.target | ||
| memory_ldst.inc.c | ||
| memory_mapping.c | ||
| memory.c | ||
| module-common.c | ||
| monitor.c | ||
| numa.c | ||
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| qdev-monitor.c | ||
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| qemu-options-wrapper.h | ||
| qemu-options.h | ||
| qemu-options.hx | ||
| qemu-seccomp.c | ||
| qemu-tech.texi | ||
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| qmp.c | ||
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| README | ||
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| replication.h | ||
| rules.mak | ||
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QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Mac
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere
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