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Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug in option parsing


From: Jan Kiszka
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug in option parsing
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:15:54 +0200
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On 2012-08-22 17:05, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> while coding the support for Jason's dump-guest-core option I realized
> there is (probably) a problem with the way QEMU parses additional
> machine options ('dump-guest-core', 'kvm_shadow_mem' etc.). Running QEMU
> with option to -machine works ok, but using '-M' (as libvirt does) works
> only w/o additional options, otherwise it ends in an error (the whole
> string is probably parsed as a machine name).
> 
> Is '-M' so obsolete it shouldn't be used at all or is it just an bug? We
> still use '-M' everywhere I know and '-machine' isn't compatible with
> older versions and different builds of QEMU.
> 
> Should I file a bug or do we have to drop '-M' for this situations?

If libvirt uses -M just like -machine, i.e. with more than a machine
name, that would be a libvirt bug (but that would have been noticed much
earlier - did you patch something?). QEMU only keeps -M <machine-name>
around to please existing users that didn't switch yet. It is NOT an
alias for -machine.

Jan

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