Block backends defined with -drive if=ide are meant to be picked up by
machine initialization code: a suitable frontend gets created and
wired up automatically.
if=ide drives not picked up that way can still be used with -device as
if they had if=none, but that's unclean and best avoided. Unused ones
produce an "Orphaned drive without device" warning.
-drive parameter "if" is optional, and the default depends on the
machine type. If a machine type doesn't specify a default, the
default is "ide".
Many machine types implicitly default to if=ide that way, even though
they don't actually have an IDE controller. This makes no sense.
Change the implicit default to if=none. Affected machines:
* all targets: none
* aarch64/arm: akita ast2500 canon cheetah collie connex imx25
integratorcp kzm lm3s6965evb lm3s811evb mainstone musicpal n800 n810
netduino2 nuri palmetto realview romulus sabrelite smdkc210 sx1 sx1
verdex z2
* cris: axis-dev88
* i386/x86_64: xenpv
* lm32: lm32-evr lm32-uclinux milkymist
* m68k: an5206 dummy mcf5208evb
* microblaze/microblazeel: petalogix-ml605 petalogix-s3adsp1800
* mips/mips64/mips64el/mipsel: mipssim
* moxie: moxiesim
* or32: or32-sim
* ppc/ppc64/ppcemb: bamboo ref405ep taihu virtex-ml507
* ppc/ppc64: mpc8544ds ppce500
* sh4/sh4eb: shix
* sparc: leon3_generic
* sparc64: niagara
* tricore: tricore_testboard
* unicore32: puv3
* xtensa/xtensaeb: kc705 lx200 lx60 ml605 sim
None of these machines have an IDE controller, let alone code to
honor if=ide.
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-arm@nongnu.org
Cc: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Cc: Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>
Cc: Jia Liu <proljc@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com>
Cc: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
Cc: Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu@gmail.com>
Cc: Bastian Koppelmann <kbastian@mail.uni-paderborn.de>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Acked-By: Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1487153147-11530-4-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
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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