Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: Add a new machine property kvm_type

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 04/11/2013 18:41, Andreas Färber ha scritto:
>> > I agree that we need some way to programmatically list all machine options.
> I wonder if it would make sense to mirror all -machine options as
> dynamic properties on /machine? :)
> Their addition could still be driven by the declarative format.
> We could then easily not only list but also inspect the values of those
> options at runtime.

Yes, I agree.  Perhaps not all of them however; probably not accel= and
probably not kvm_type too.  In fact, what I don't like about this patch
is that it doesn't really feel "right" to put it in -machine.  On the
other hand we definitely do not want to split it further to -accel.  Oh
well, it seems like designing the right command-line interface is the
hardest part of doing QEMU.

Paolo

> It wouldn't immediately solve Jan's documentation problem, but that's
> more general than just -machine, isn't it?
> 
> CC'ing Anthony and Paolo.