[Libguestfs] [PATCH virt-v2v 1/2] -o qemu: Replace -balloon option with -device

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Apr 13 09:21:40 UTC 2022


QEMU removed the -balloon option (qemu commit 1d9cb42c56547 "Remove
the deprecated -balloon option").  Actually quite a long time ago, in
2018.  Replace it in the qemu script code.

Reported-by: Ming Xie
Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2074805
---
 output/output_qemu.ml | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/output/output_qemu.ml b/output/output_qemu.ml
index f8d2e171f7..4e0a3de6f0 100644
--- a/output/output_qemu.ml
+++ b/output/output_qemu.ml
@@ -289,9 +289,7 @@ module QEMU = struct
       arg_list "-device" ["virtio-rng-pci"; "rng=rng0"];
     );
     if guestcaps.gcaps_virtio_balloon then
-      arg "-balloon" "virtio"
-    else
-      arg "-balloon" "none";
+      arg "-device" "virtio-balloon";
     if guestcaps.gcaps_isa_pvpanic then
       arg_list "-device" ["pvpanic"; "ioport=0x505"];
     if guestcaps.gcaps_virtio_socket then
-- 
2.35.1



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