[PATCH 0/6] qemu: Allow control of deprecation behaviour

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Thu Apr 1 08:37:31 UTC 2021


On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 00:36:52 +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 07:33:48PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > For debugging purposes it's very useful to disable all deprecated
> > commands and fields in qemu. This series implements a qemu.conf knob and
> > a qemu namespace element to control this.
> > 
> > The implementation tries to be very conservative to allow downgrades of
> > qemu and such without breaking the startup of the VM.
> > 
> > The intention is that developers and CI deployments use the 'crash'
> > option to catch any unexpected qemu disappearance.
> > 
> > Note that this applies on top of my series for -object QAPIfication.
> > 
> > Based on Markus' -compat series which was now merged to upstream qemu.
> > 
> > Peter Krempa (6):
> >  docs/drvqemu: Convert to RST
> 
> I wanted to review the output of this first patch side-by-side so that I
> do not have to go through all the markup hell.  But when I tried looking
> for the artefacts from any possible pipeline this could have run through
> I was greeted with a "get off my lawn" message.  So if you are okay with
> me just skimming through the first patch (after reviewing the rest of da
> patch series), then with the mentioned fixes, this is for you (xkcd#276)

Oops!, despite criticising the same thing last time [1] I actually didn't
(forgot to?) push the branch to gitlab so that artifacts would be
present.

https://pipo.sk.gitlab.io/-/libvirt/-/jobs/1145757051/artifacts/website/drvqemu.html


[1] https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2021-March/msg00602.html




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