[libvirt] FYI: qemu -M option deprecated upstream, removed from -help output

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon Jul 25 20:22:52 UTC 2011


On 07/25/2011 05:57 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/25/2011 11:12 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> I guess this may affect the qemu driver in future ... Thanks to
>> Markus Armbruster for bringing this to my/our attention.
>
> As long as QEMU supports -M ? it should not be a problem. The -M option
> is not scraped from -help output.

If -M is going away, then libvirt _should_ scrape -help output to see 
whether to use -M or -machine, rather than blindly using -M.

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