While introducing a non-QemuOpts code path for device creation for JSON
-device, we noticed that QMP device_add doesn't check its input
correctly (accepting arguments that should have been rejected), and that
users may be relying on this behaviour (libvirt did until it was fixed
recently).
Let's use a deprecation period before we fix this bug in QEMU to avoid
nasty surprises for users.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211111143530.18985-1-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211115145409.176785-12-kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
The following commits (released in v6.0.0) made raised the
quality of the TCI backend to the other TCG architectures,
thus is is not considerated experimental anymore:
- c6fbea47664..2f74f45e32b
- dc09f047edd..9e9acb7b348
- b6139eb0578..2fc6f16ca5e
- dbcbda2cd84..5e8892db93f
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20211106111457.517546-1-f4bug@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Modern way is using blockdev-add + blockdev-backup, which provides a
lot more control on how target is opened.
As example of drive-backup problems consider the following:
User of drive-backup expects that target will be opened in the same
cache and aio mode as source. Corresponding logic is in
drive_backup_prepare(), where we take bs->open_flags of source.
It works rather bad if source was added by blockdev-add. Assume source
is qcow2 image. On blockdev-add we should specify aio and cache options
for file child of qcow2 node. What happens next:
drive_backup_prepare() looks at bs->open_flags of qcow2 source node.
But there no BDRV_O_NOCAHE neither BDRV_O_NATIVE_AIO: BDRV_O_NOCAHE is
places in bs->file->bs->open_flags, and BDRV_O_NATIVE_AIO is nowhere,
as file-posix parse options and simply set s->use_linux_aio.
The documentation is updated in a minimal way, so that drive-backup is
noted only as a deprecated command, and blockdev-backup used in most of
places.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Commit 497a30dbb0 ("qemu-img: Require -F with -b backing image")
removed the content of the "Related binaries" section but forgot
to remove the section title. Since it is now empty, remove it too.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Joaquin de Andres <me@xcancerberox.com.ar>
Message-Id: <20211105142656.145791-1-philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
* DMA support in the multiboot option ROM
* Rename default-bus-bypass-iommu
* Deprecate -watchdog and cleanup -watchdog-action
* HVF fix for <PAGE_SIZE regions
* Support TSC scaling for AMD nested virtualization
* Fix for ESP fuzzing bug
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/bonzini/tags/for-upstream' into staging
* Build system fixes and cleanups
* DMA support in the multiboot option ROM
* Rename default-bus-bypass-iommu
* Deprecate -watchdog and cleanup -watchdog-action
* HVF fix for <PAGE_SIZE regions
* Support TSC scaling for AMD nested virtualization
* Fix for ESP fuzzing bug
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* remotes/bonzini/tags/for-upstream: (27 commits)
configure: fix --audio-drv-list help message
configure: Remove the check for the __thread keyword
Move the l2tpv3 test from configure to meson.build
meson: remove unnecessary coreaudio test program
meson: remove pointless warnings
meson.build: Allow to disable OSS again
meson: bump submodule to 0.59.3
qtest/am53c974-test: add test for cancelling in-flight requests
esp: ensure in-flight SCSI requests are always cancelled
KVM: SVM: add migration support for nested TSC scaling
hw/i386: fix vmmouse registration
watchdog: remove select_watchdog_action
vl: deprecate -watchdog
watchdog: add information from -watchdog help to -device help
hw/i386: Rename default_bus_bypass_iommu
hvf: Avoid mapping regions < PAGE_SIZE as ram
configure: do not duplicate CPU_CFLAGS into QEMU_LDFLAGS
configure: remove useless NPTL probe
target/i386: use DMA-enabled multiboot ROM for new-enough QEMU machine types
optionrom: add a DMA-enabled multiboot ROM
...
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
This is obsolete since SeaBIOS 1.11.0 introduced native support for
sending messages to the serial console. The new support can be
activated using -machine graphics=off on x86 targets.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210909123219.862652-1-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
-watchdog is the same as -device except that it is case insensitive (and it
allows only watchdog devices of course). Now that "-device help" can list
as such the available watchdog devices, we can deprecate it.
Note that even though -watchdog tries to be case insensitive, it fails
at that: "-watchdog i6300xyz" fails with "Unknown -watchdog device",
but "-watchdog i6300ESB" also fails (when the generated -device option
is processed) with an error "'i6300ESB' is not a valid device model name".
For this reason, the documentation update does not mention the case
insensitivity of -watchdog.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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>
In the SMP configuration, we should either provide a topology
parameter with a reasonable value (greater than zero) or just
omit it and QEMU will compute the missing value.
The users shouldn't provide a configuration with any parameter
of it specified as zero (e.g. -smp 8,sockets=0) which could
possibly cause unexpected results in the -smp parsing. So we
deprecate this kind of configurations since 6.2 by adding the
explicit sanity check.
Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210929025816.21076-3-wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
At this moment we only provide one event to report a hotunplug error,
MEM_UNPLUG_ERROR. As of Linux kernel 5.12 and QEMU 6.0.0, the pseries
machine is now able to report unplug errors for other device types, such
as CPUs.
Instead of creating a (device_type)_UNPLUG_ERROR for each new device,
create a generic DEVICE_UNPLUG_GUEST_ERROR event that can be used by all
guest side unplug errors in the future. This event has a similar API as
the existing DEVICE_DELETED event, always providing the QOM path of the
device and dev->id if there's any.
With this new generic event, MEM_UNPLUG_ERROR is now marked as deprecated.
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20210907004755.424931-6-danielhb413@gmail.com>
[dwg: Correct missing ')' in stubs/qdev.c]
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
I was looking for such documentation, but couldn't find it. Add it to
the build-platform.rst document.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Use a standard heading format for the index.rst file in a directory.
Using overlines makes it clear that individual documents can use e.g.
=== for chapter titles and --- for section titles, as suggested in the
Linux kernel guidelines[1]. They could do it anyway, because documents
included in a toctree are parsed separately and therefore are not tied
to the same conventions for headings. However, keeping some consistency is
useful since sometimes files are included from multiple places.
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/doc-guide/sphinx.html
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
It's not that much complicated to type "-display sdl" or "-display curses",
so we should not clutter our main option name space with such simple
wrapper options and rather present the users with a concise interface
instead. Thus let's deprecate the "-sdl" and "-curses" wrapper options now.
Message-Id: <20210825092023.81396-4-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
The alt_grab and ctrl_grab parameter of the -display sdl option prevent
the QAPIfication of the "sdl" part of the -display option, so we should
eventually remove them. And since this feature is also rather niche anyway,
we should not clutter the top-level option list with these, so let's
also deprecate the "-alt-grab" and the "-ctrl-grab" options while we're
at it.
Once the deprecation period of "alt_grab" and "ctrl_grab" is over, we
then can finally switch the -display sdl option to use QAPI internally,
too.
Message-Id: <20210825092023.81396-3-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20210802134414.52037-1-ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
[AJB: fixed up move of deprecated.rst]
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Remove the raspi2/raspi3 machine aliases,
deprecated since commit 155e1c82ed.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-id: 20210827060815.2384760-3-f4bug@amsat.org
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Some of the removed CLI options have been added to the wrong section
in the "Removed features" chapter - they've been put into the
"Related binaries" section instead. Move them now into the correct
"System emulator command line arguments" section.
Message-Id: <20210818112908.102205-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Commit 29e0447551
(docs/about/removed-features: Document removed CLI options from QEMU v3.1)
has recorded some CLI options as replaced/removed from QEMU v3.1, but one
of the subjects has missed the release record. Let's fix it.
Reported-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210823030005.165668-4-wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
There is a mixture of "since/removed in X.Y" vs "since/removed in X.Y.Z"
in the subjects in deprecated.rst/removed-features.rst. It will be better
to use an unified format. It seems unlikely that we will ever deprecate
something in a stable release, and even more unlikely that we'll remove
something in one, so the short versions look like the thing we want to
standardize on.
So here we unify the subject format in deprecated.rst to "since X.Y", and
unify the subject format in removed-features.rst to "removed in X.Y".
Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210823030005.165668-3-wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
There are two places describing the same thing about deprecation
of invalid topologies of -smp CLI, so remove the duplicated one.
Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210823030005.165668-2-wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
These machines had been removed in the QEMU v2.6 up to 4.0 time frame.
Message-Id: <20210811084103.74832-7-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
These devices had been removed/replaced in QEMU v2.12 and v4.0.
Message-Id: <20210811084103.74832-6-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
These HMP commands had been removed/replaced in QEMU v2.12. Still, some
people might want to update from older versions to the recent QEMU version,
so we should give some recommendations for the replacements in our
documentation.
Message-Id: <20210811084103.74832-5-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
These CLI options had been removed/replaced in QEMU v3.1. Still, some
people might want to update from older versions to the recent QEMU version,
so we should give some recommendations for the replacements in our
documentation.
Message-Id: <20210811084103.74832-4-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
These CLI options had been removed/replaced in QEMU v3.0. Still, some
people might want to update from older versions to the recent QEMU version,
so we should give some recommendations for the replacements in our
documentation.
Message-Id: <20210811084103.74832-3-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
These CLI options had been removed/replaced in QEMU v2.12. Still, some
people might want to update from older versions to the recent QEMU version,
so we should give some recommendations for the replacements in our
documentation.
Message-Id: <20210811084103.74832-2-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
The section describing the removed feature "-usbdevice ccid" had a
typo so the markup started with single backtick and ended with double
backtick; fix it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210726142338.31872-10-peter.maydell@linaro.org
In rST markup, single backticks `like this` represent "interpreted
text", which can be handled as a bunch of different things if tagged
with a specific "role":
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#interpreted-text
(the most common one for us is "reference to a URL, which gets
hyperlinked").
The default "role" if none is specified is "title_reference",
intended for references to book or article titles, and it renders
into the HTML as <cite>...</cite> (usually comes out as italics).
This commit fixes various places in the manual which were
using single backticks when double backticks (for literal text)
were intended, and covers those files where only one or two
instances of these errors were made.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Add some text to About to act as a brief introduction to the QEMU
manual and to make the about page a bit less of an abrupt start to
it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210705095547.15790-6-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Now that we have a single Sphinx manual rather than multiple manuals,
we can provide a better place for "common to all of QEMU" information
like the deprecation notices, build platforms, license information,
which we currently have in the system/ manual even though it applies
to all of QEMU.
Create a new directory about/ on the same level as system/, user/,
etc, and move these documents there.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210705095547.15790-5-peter.maydell@linaro.org
