[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PULL 25/26] block: Remove deprecated -drive option serial

[Peter Maydell]

On 25 June 2018 at 11:31, Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:01:46 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 22 June 2018 at 16:40, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >  - SD card - requires -drive with if=sd, no -device support AFAICT
>>
>> Hmm? You can use -device if you want:
>>   -drive if=none,id=mydrive,... -device sd-card,...,drive=mydrive
>> (the sd-card device then plugs into the sd controller device
>> via the sd-bus bus).
>>
>> Most command lines floating around on the web use if=sd, though
>> (which doesn't require explicit creation of the sd-card device.)
>
> When I've spoke with Markus during the KVM forum he found out that some
> machine types still don't support that, so that why libvirt didn't
> bother converting it yet.

Yes, it's a bit of a stalled-in-progress transition...

thanks
-- PMM