[libvirt] [PATCH v2 00/17] Drop support for QEMU < 0.12.0

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Mon Nov 9 23:37:06 UTC 2015



On 11/09/2015 11:24 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> A v2 of this series:
> 
>   https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-November/msg00165.html
> 
> The patches for introducing virtlogd will be significantly
> simplified if we don't need to worry about parsing stderr
> during startup. This is required prior to QEMU 0.11 so
> that we can get the dyanamically allocated /dev/pty/NNN
> paths.
> 
> The QEMU 0.12.1 release was shipped in RHEL-6 vintage
> distros and is already quite old, so seems like a fair
> target version to aim for as the minimum required.
> 
> By dropping support for anything older than QEMU 0.12.0
> we can remove the code for parsing stderr. The QEMU 0.12.0
> release was quite special because it was the release where
> QEMU switched what I call its "modern" approach to configuration
> via -device. A major part of the complexity of the QEMU command
> line generator is due to need to support non-device syntax,
> so by mandating QEMU 0.12.0 we'll be able to kill off alot
> of conditional code. This series makes a start by assuming
> existance of 5 features, -vnc, 'info chardev', -no-reboot,
> -drive and -name, but there are a tonne more we can assume.
> 
> This series drops 20 QEMU_CAPS_* flags, but there are still
> another ~15-20 that can be dropped, now we assume 0.12.0
> or better.
> 
> Changed in v2:
> 
>  - Fixed misc coverity reports from John
>  - Rebased to use test .args files with new line wrapping for clarity
>  - Split out some fixes into separate patches
>  - Dropped a bunch more capabilities
> 
> Daniel P. Berrange (17):
>   qemu: mandate QEMU version 0.12.0 or newer
>   qemu: remove all support for kQEMU
>   qemu: assume -vnc arg always takes a ':'
>   qemu: assume 'info chardev' is always available
>   qemu: assume -no-reboot is always available
>   qemu: handle USB bus in qemuAssignDeviceDiskAliasFixed()
>   qemu: handle floppy disk bus when parsing command line argv
>   qemu: assume -drive argument is always available
>   qemu: assume -name is always available
>   qemu: assume -uuid is always available
>   qemu: really remove last traces of Xenner support
>   qemu: assume vnet-hdr feature is always available
>   qemu: assume support for all migration protocols except rdma
>   qemu: assume -drive cache always uses v2 option names
>   qemu: assume -drive format is always available
>   qemu: assume -vga is always available
>   qemu: assume various QEMU 0.10 features are always available
> 

Other than a few things - I think the series looks good. Hopefully we'll
have very few backport fix issues to a certain platform to worry about
;-).

I think the one unanswered question/issue is whether we make this 1.3.0
or not.  Whether any of the .spec files need adjustment is something I'm
never quite sure about either...


John
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