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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: Add a new machine property kvm_type
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Jan Kiszka |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: Add a new machine property kvm_type |
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Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:28:10 +0100 |
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On 2013-10-07 18:53, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <address@hidden>
>
> Targets like ppc64 support different typed of KVM, one which use
> hypervisor mode and the other which doesn't. Add a new machine
> property kvm_type that helps in selecting the respective ones
> We also add a new QEMUMachine callback get_vm_type that helps
> in mapping the string representation of kvm type specified.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <address@hidden>
...
> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> index 4e709d5..7ecc581 100644
> --- a/vl.c
> +++ b/vl.c
> @@ -427,7 +427,12 @@ static QemuOptsList qemu_machine_opts = {
> .name = "usb",
> .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
> .help = "Set on/off to enable/disable usb",
> + },{
> + .name = "kvm_type",
> + .type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
> + .help = "Set to kvm type to be used in create vm ioctl",
This does not sound like an appropriate documentation for an enduser.
OTOH, I do not recall right now how these help strings can be obtained
at all. One could intuitively try "-machine <sometype>,?", but that's
not implemented. Anyone?
Jan
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