[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/9] target-i386: Use "-" instead of "_" on all feature names

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Tue May 10 17:36:06 UTC 2016


On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 17:19:51 +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Fri,  6 May 2016 15:11:31 -0300
> Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > This makes the feature name tables in feature_word_info all match
> > the actual QOM property names we use.
> > 
> > This will make the command-line interface more consistent,
> > allowing the QOM property names to be used as "-cpu" arguments
> > directly.
> 
> wouldn't that change output of '-cpu help',
> can it break libvirt?

Don't worry, for any QEMU >= 1.2.0 libvirt uses only QMP commands when
probing capabilities. And currently we don't even parse feature names
anywhere, we only use feature names when constructing -cpu command line
and that parts seems to be covered by this patch.

Jirka




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