Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [FOR 0.12 PATCH v3 10/21] default devices: add global cmd line option.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 11:11:29AM -0500, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > > Add global command line option to disable default devices.
> > >
> > > Should -readconfig imply this?
> > 
> > Hmm, not sure.  Why do you think this would be useful?
> 
> Here is my thinking: if you used -writeconfig, your machine description
> is (at least in theory) entirely included in the config file including
> (again in theory) the default devices.  So, if the machine description
> has no parallel port, QEMU should not create a default one when you load
> it with -readconfig.

Shouldn't  -writeconfig just  add '-nodefaults' to the config it
generates ?

That way if someone instead creates a configfile by hand, copying in
their existing QEMU args they still get default devices which matches 
behaviour of their existing CLI args.

Regards,
Daniel
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