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2018-03-19block: Deprecate "backing": ""Max Reitz
We have a clear replacement, so let's deprecate it. Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com> Message-Id: <20180224154033.29559-8-mreitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2018-03-12qemu-doc: Add the paragraph about the -no-frame deprecation againThomas Huth
The section has accidentially been removed while resolving a contextual conflict during a rebase, so add this again. Fixes: f29d4450428fe07e9d6b0655cef2e59bfa0b2ea5 Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1520405769-22179-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-03-12qemu-doc: update deprecation section to use -nic and -netdev hubportPaolo Bonzini
The deprecated SLIRP options -tftp, -bootp, -redir, -smb provide sample replacements that use "-net nic". Suggest "-nic" instead, since we finally have a path towards getting rid of "-net". For "-net vlan" the replacement involves hubport network devices, so mention that too. Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Acked-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-03-06balloon: Fix documentation of the --balloon parameter and deprecate itThomas Huth
There are two issues with the documentation of the --balloon parameter: First, "--balloon none" is simply doing nothing. Even if a machine had a balloon device by default, this option is not disabling anything, it is simply ignored. Thus let's simply drop this option from the documentation to avoid to confuse the users (but keep the code in vl.c for backward compatibility). Second, the documentation claims that "--balloon virtio" is the default mode, but this is not true anymore since commit 382f074371f7dc32a34. Since that commit, the option also has no real use case anymore, since you can simply use "--device virtio-balloon" nowadays instead. Thus to simplify our complex parameter zoo a little bit, let's deprecate the the parameter now and tell the user to use "--device virtio-balloon" instead. Fixes: 382f074371f7dc32a34c944c845b1698e83d8c36 Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1519796303-13257-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-03-06Document --rtc-td-hack, --localtime and --startdate as deprecatedThomas Huth
These options have been marked in a comment in qemu-options.hx as deprecated in 2009 already (see commit 1ed2fc1fa35fadc0d6), but we never informed the users about these deprecations. Let's catch up on that omission now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1519138892-12836-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> [Fix messages. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-03-06scsi: Remove automatic creation of SCSI controllers with -drive if=scsiThomas Huth
Automatic creation of SCSI controllers for "-drive if=scsi" for x86 machines was quite a bad idea (see description of commit f778a82f0c179 for details). This is marked as deprecated since QEMU v2.9.0, and as far as I know, nobody complained that this is still urgently required anymore. Time to remove this now. Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1519123357-13225-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-03-06Remove the deprecated -tdf optionThomas Huth
It's been marked as deprecated since a very long time already, and the parameter is not doing anything useful anymore except for printing a warning, so it's now time to finally get rid of this option. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1519071820-4062-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-03-05net: Remove the deprecated 'host_net_add' and 'host_net_remove' HMP commandsThomas Huth
They are deprecated since QEMU v2.10, and so far nobody complained that these commands are still necessary for any reason - and since you can use 'netdev_add' and 'netdev_remove' instead, there also should not be any real reason. Since they are also standing in the way for the upcoming 'vlan' clean-up, it's now time to remove them. Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2018-03-05net: Remove the deprecated way of dumping network packetsThomas Huth
"-net dump" has been marked as deprecated since QEMU v2.10, since it only works with the deprecated 'vlan' parameter (or hubs). Network dumping should be done with "-object filter-dump" nowadays instead. Since nobody complained so far about the deprecation message, let's finally get rid of "-net dump" now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2018-02-26qemu-doc: deprecate query-cpusViktor Mihajlovski
Start the deprecation period for QAPI query-cpus (replaced by query-cpus-fast) beginning with 2.12.0. Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1518797321-28356-5-git-send-email-mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
2018-02-20vl: deprecate -no-frameGerd Hoffmann
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Message-id: 20180202111022.19269-2-kraxel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2018-02-16monitor: Remove legacy "-mon default=on" parameterThomas Huth
The "default" parameter of the "-mon" option is useless since QEMU v2.4.0, and marked as deprecated since QEMU v2.8.0. That should have been long enough to let people update their scripts, so time to remove it now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1513700253-10045-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
2018-02-13block: maintain persistent disabled bitmapsVladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
To maintain load/store disabled bitmap there is new approach: - deprecate @autoload flag of block-dirty-bitmap-add, make it ignored - store enabled bitmaps as "auto" to qcow2 - store disabled bitmaps without "auto" flag to qcow2 - on qcow2 open load "auto" bitmaps as enabled and others as disabled (except in_use bitmaps) Also, adjust iotests 165 and 176 appropriately. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> Message-id: 20180202160752.143796-1-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2018-02-08docs: Add section for NVMe VFIO driverFam Zheng
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180116060901.17413-9-famz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
2018-01-27ppc: Deprecate qemu-system-ppcembthuth@redhat.com
qemu-system-ppcemb has been once split of qemu-system-ppc to support CPU page sizes < 4096 for some of the embedded 4xx PowerPC CPUs. However, there was hardly any OS available in the wild that really used such small page sizes (Linux uses 4096 on PPC), so there is no known recent use case for this separate build anymore. It's rather cumbersome to maintain a separate set of config switches for this, and it's wasting compile and test time of all the developers who have to build all QEMU targets to verify that their changes did not break anything. Except for the small CPU page sizes, qemu-system-ppc can be used as a full replacement for qemu-system-ppcemb since it contains all the embedded 4xx PPC boards and CPUs, too. Thus let's start the deprecation process for qemu-system-ppcemb to see whether somebody still needs the small page sizes or whether we could finally remove this unloved separate build. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
2018-01-25ui: deprecate use of SDL 1.2 in favour of 2.0 seriesDaniel P. Berrange
The SDL 2.0 release was made in Aug, 2013: https://www.libsdl.org/release/ That will soon be 4 + 1/2 years ago, which is enough time to consider the 2.0 series widely supported. Thus we deprecate the SDL 1.2 support, which will allow us to delete it in the last release of 2018. By this time, SDL 2.0 will be more than 5 years old. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Message-id: 20180115142533.24585-1-berrange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2018-01-12ui: deprecate use of GTK 2.x in favour of 3.x seriesDaniel P. Berrange
The GTK 3.0 release was made in Feb, 2011: https://blog.gtk.org/2011/02/10/gtk-3-0-released/ That will soon be 7 years ago, which is enough time to consider the 3.x series widely supported. Thus we deprecate the GTK 2.x support, which will allow us to delete it in the last release of 2018. By this time, GTK 3.x will be almost 8 years old. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Message-id: 20171212113440.16483-1-berrange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2018-01-10hw/ppc: Remove the deprecated spapr-pci-vfio-host-bridge deviceThomas Huth
It's a deprecated dummy device since QEMU v2.6.0. That should have been enough time to allow the users to update their scripts in case they still use it, so let's remove this legacy code now. Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
2018-01-08Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/gkurz/tags/for-upstream' into stagingPeter Maydell
- Aneesh no longer listed in MAINTAINERS, - deprecation of the handle backend, - improved error reporting, especially when the local backend fails to open the VirtFS root, - virtio-9p-test to behave more like a real virtio guest driver: set DRIVER_OK when ready to use the device and process the used ring for completed requests, - cosmetic fixes (mostly coding style related). # gpg: Signature made Mon 08 Jan 2018 10:19:18 GMT # gpg: using RSA key 0x71D4D5E5822F73D6 # gpg: Good signature from "Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>" # gpg: aka "Gregory Kurz <gregory.kurz@free.fr>" # gpg: aka "[jpeg image of size 3330]" # Primary key fingerprint: B482 8BAF 9431 40CE F2A3 4910 71D4 D5E5 822F 73D6 * remotes/gkurz/tags/for-upstream: MAINTAINERS: Drop Aneesh as 9pfs maintainer 9pfs: deprecate handle backend fsdev: improve error handling of backend init fsdev: improve error handling of backend opts parsing tests: virtio-9p: set DRIVER_OK before using the device tests: virtio-9p: fix ISR dependence 9pfs: make pdu_marshal() and pdu_unmarshal() static functions 9pfs: fix error path in pdu_submit() 9pfs: fix type in *_parse_opts declarations 9pfs: handle: fix type definition 9pfs: fix some type definitions fsdev: fix some type definitions 9pfs: fix XattrOperations typedef virtio-9p: move unrealize/realize after virtio_9p_transport definition Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2018-01-08Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into stagingPeter Maydell
Block layer patches # gpg: Signature made Fri 22 Dec 2017 14:09:01 GMT # gpg: using RSA key 0x7F09B272C88F2FD6 # gpg: Good signature from "Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>" # Primary key fingerprint: DC3D EB15 9A9A F95D 3D74 56FE 7F09 B272 C88F 2FD6 * remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream: (35 commits) block: Keep nodes drained between reopen_queue/multiple commit: Simplify reopen of base test-bdrv-drain: Test graph changes in drained section block: Allow graph changes in subtree drained section test-bdrv-drain: Recursive draining with multiple parents test-bdrv-drain: Test behaviour in coroutine context test-bdrv-drain: Tests for bdrv_subtree_drain block: Add bdrv_subtree_drained_begin/end() block: Don't notify parents in drain call chain test-bdrv-drain: Test nested drain sections block: Nested drain_end must still call callbacks block: Don't block_job_pause_all() in bdrv_drain_all() test-bdrv-drain: Test drain vs. block jobs blockjob: Pause job on draining any job BDS test-bdrv-drain: Test bs->quiesce_counter test-bdrv-drain: Test callback for bdrv_drain block: Make bdrv_drain() driver callbacks non-recursive block: Assert drain_all is only called from main AioContext block: Remove unused bdrv_requests_pending block: Mention -drive cyls/heads/secs/trans/serial/addr in deprecation chapter ... Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2018-01-089pfs: deprecate handle backendGreg Kurz
This backend raise some concerns: - doesn't support symlinks - fails +100 tests in the PJD POSIX file system test suite [1] - requires the QEMU process to run with the CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH capability, which isn't recommended for security reasons This backend should not be used and wil be removed. The 'local' backend is the recommended alternative. [1] https://www.tuxera.com/community/posix-test-suite/ Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-12-22block: Mention -drive cyls/heads/secs/trans/serial/addr in deprecation chapterThomas Huth
Looks like we forgot to announce the deprecation of these options in the corresponding chapter of the qemu-doc text, so let's do that now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2017-12-22block: Remove the deprecated -hdachs optionThomas Huth
It's been marked as deprecated since QEMU v2.10.0, and so far nobody complained that we should keep it, so let's remove this legacy option now to simplify the code quite a bit. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2017-12-22block: Remove the obsolete -drive boot=on|off parameterThomas Huth
It's not working anymore since QEMU v1.3.0 - time to remove it now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2017-12-22qemu-doc: Update the deprecation information of -tftp, -bootp, -redir and -smbThomas Huth
The information how to update the deprecated parameters was too scarce, so that some people did not update to the new syntax yet. Provide some more information to make sure that it is clear how to update from the old syntax to the new one. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2017-12-22net: Remove the legacy "-net channel" parameterThomas Huth
It has never been documented, so hardly anybody knows about this parameter, and it is marked as deprecated since QEMU v2.6. Time to let it go now. Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2017-12-21Remove legacy -no-kvm-pit optionThomas Huth
It's only printing a warning since QEMU v1.3.0, so nobody should use this anymore today. Let's get rid of this now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1513619065-31722-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-12-20qemu-options qemu-doc: Move "Device URL Syntax" to qemu-docMarkus Armbruster
Commit 0f5314a (v1.0) added section "Device URL Syntax" to qemu-options.hx. It's enclosed in STEXI..ETEXI, thus affects only qemu-options.texi, not --help. It appears as a subsection under section "Invocation". Similarly, qemu.1 has it as a subsection under "OPTIONS". Commit f9dadc9 (v1.1.0) dropped new option -iscsi into the middle of this section. No effect on qemu-options.texi. It appears in --help run together with the "Bluetooth(R) options:" header. Commit c70a01e (v1.5.0) gives it is own heading in --help by moving commit 0f5314a's DEFHEADING(Device URL Syntax:) outside STEXI..ETEXI. Trouble is the heading makes no sense for -iscsi. Move all of the "Device URL Syntax" Texinfo to qemu-doc.texi. Mark it for inclusion in qemu.1 with '@c man begin NOTES'. This turns it into a separate section outside the list of options both in qemu-doc and in qemu.1. There's substantial overlap with the existing qemu-doc section "Disk Images". Mark with a TODO comment. Output of --help will be fixed next. Cc: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Cc: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Cc: qemu-block@nongnu.org Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20171002140307.5292-4-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> [Unwanted @node dropped]
2017-12-14s390x: deprecate s390-squash-mcss machine propHalil Pasic
With the cssids unrestricted (commit "s390x/css: unrestrict cssids") the s390-squash-mcss machine property should not be used. Actually Libvirt never supported this, so the expectation is that removing it should be pretty painless. But let's play nice and deprecate it first. Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-Id: <20171206144438.28908-3-pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
2017-12-14hmp-commands: Remove the deprecated usb_add and usb_delThomas Huth
It's easy to use device_add and device_del as replacement instead. The usb_add and usb_del commands are deprecated since QEMU 2.10, and nobody complained that they are still needed, so let's get rid of them now to make the HMP interface a little bit less overloaded. Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1512073140-17672-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
2017-11-27docs: Add image locking subsectionFam Zheng
This documents the image locking feature and explains when and how related options can be used. Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2017-11-21Use HTTPS for qemu.org and other domainsStefan Hajnoczi
qemu.org enabled HTTPS in 2017 and it should be used instead of HTTP. There are also URLs to json.org, openvpn.net, and other domains that support HTTPS. This patch updates the qemu.org domains everywhere and also third-party domains that I have checked. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-id: 20171121120435.28728-3-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2017-11-13xlnx-zcu102: Add an info message deprecating the EP108Alistair Francis
The EP108 was an early access development board that is no longer used. Add an info message to convert any users to the ZCU102 instead. On QEMU they are both identical. This patch also updated the qemu-doc.texi file to indicate that the EP108 has been deprecated. Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com> Reviewed-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org> Message-id: 1510343626-25861-4-git-send-email-cota@braap.org Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2017-10-16qemu-doc.texi: remove trailing whitespaceMichael Tokarev
Remove trailing whitespace in qemu-doc.texi, as it causes reproducibility issues depending on the echo implementation used by the Makefile. Reported-By: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-10-09qemu-options: Deprecate -nodefconfigEduardo Habkost
Since 2012 (commit ba6212d8 "Eliminate cpus-x86_64.conf file") we have no default config files that would be disabled using -nodefconfig. Update documentation and document -nodefconfig as deprecated. Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20171004030025.7866-3-ehabkost@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
2017-09-26docs: add qemu-block-drivers(7) man pageStefan Hajnoczi
Block driver documentation is available in qemu-doc.html. It would be convenient to have documentation for formats, protocols, and filter drivers in a man page. Extract the relevant part of qemu-doc.html into a new file called docs/qemu-block-drivers.texi. This file can also be built as a stand-alone document (man, html, etc). Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2017-08-30qemu-doc: Add UUID support in initiator nameFred Rolland
Update doc with the usage of UUID for initiator name. Related-To: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1006468 Signed-off-by: Fred Rolland <frolland@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170823084830.30500-1-frolland@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-08-14Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/jasowang/tags/net-pull-request' into ↵Peter Maydell
staging # gpg: Signature made Mon 14 Aug 2017 13:32:10 BST # gpg: using RSA key 0xEF04965B398D6211 # gpg: Good signature from "Jason Wang (Jason Wang on RedHat) <jasowang@redhat.com>" # gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with sufficiently trusted signatures! # gpg: It is not certain that the signature belongs to the owner. # Primary key fingerprint: 215D 46F4 8246 689E C77F 3562 EF04 965B 398D 6211 * remotes/jasowang/tags/net-pull-request: qemu-doc: Mention host_net_add/-remove in the deprecation chapter Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
2017-08-14qemu-doc: Mention host_net_add/-remove in the deprecation chapterThomas Huth
The two HMP commands host_net_add and -remove have recently been marked as deprecated, too, so we should now mention them in the chapter of deprecated features. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2017-08-14qemu-doc: Fix "-net van" typoThomas Huth
While Andrew S. Tanenbaum has a point by saying "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway", we don't support that way of transportation in QEMU yet, so replace the typo with the correct word "vlan". Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1502365466-19432-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-08-01docs: document deprecation policy & deprecated features in appendixDaniel P. Berrange
The deprecation of features in QEMU is totally adhoc currently, with no way for the user to get a list of what is deprecated in each release. This adds an appendix to the doc that records when each deprecation was made and provides text explaining what to use instead, if anything. Since there has been no formal policy around removal of deprecated features in the past, any deprecations prior to 2.10.0 are to be treated as if they had been made at the 2.10.0 release. Thus the earliest that existing deprecations will be deleted is the start of the 2.12.0 cycle. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20170725113638.7019-1-berrange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-07-11docs: document encryption options for qcow, qcow2 and luksDaniel P. Berrange
Expand the image format docs to cover the new options for the qcow, qcow2 and luks disk image formats Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170623162419.26068-21-berrange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2017-07-04qemu-doc: do not refer to years-old version numbersPaolo Bonzini
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-07-04qemu-doc: Add missing "@c man end" statementsThomas Huth
Since commit 3f2ce724f1f1 ("Move the qemu-ga description into a separate chapter"), the qemu.1 man page looks pretty much screwed up, e.g. the title was "qemu-ga - QEMU Guest Agent" instead of "qemu-doc - QEMU Emulator User Documentation". However, that movement of the gemu-ga chapter is not the real problem, it just triggered another bug in the qemu-doc.texi: There are some parts in the file which introduce a "@c man begin OPTIONS" section, but never close it again with "@c man end". After adding the proper end tags here, the title of the man page is right again and the previously wrongly tagged sections now also show up correctly in the man page, too. Reported-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1497863771-24929-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-06-15qemu-doc: include version numberPaolo Bonzini
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-06-04qemu-doc: Add hyperlinks to further license informationThomas Huth
Add a link to the GPLv2 and a link to the LICENSE file in the QEMU repository to fix the two TODO items in this appendix. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
2017-06-04qemu-doc: Move the qemu-ga description into a separate chapterThomas Huth
The qemu-ga description is currently a subsection of the Disk Images chapter - which does not make much sense since the qemu-ga is not directly related to disk images. So let's move this information into a separate chapter instead. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
2017-05-15Merge remote-tracking branch 'kraxel/tags/pull-usb-20170512-1' into stagingStefan Hajnoczi
usb: bugfixes, doc update # gpg: Signature made Fri 12 May 2017 01:20:29 PM BST # gpg: using RSA key 0x4CB6D8EED3E87138 # gpg: Good signature from "Gerd Hoffmann (work) <kraxel@redhat.com>" # gpg: aka "Gerd Hoffmann <gerd@kraxel.org>" # gpg: aka "Gerd Hoffmann (private) <kraxel@gmail.com>" # Primary key fingerprint: A032 8CFF B93A 17A7 9901 FE7D 4CB6 D8EE D3E8 7138 * kraxel/tags/pull-usb-20170512-1: hw/usb/dev-serial: Do not try to set vendorid or productid properties xhci: relax link check usb-hub: clear PORT_STAT_SUSPEND on wakeup xhci: fix logging usb-redir: fix stack overflow in usbredir_log_data qemu-doc: Update to use the new way of attaching USB devices Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-05-12qemu-doc: Update to use the new way of attaching USB devicesThomas Huth
The preferred way of adding USB devices is via "-device" and "device_add" nowadays, so let's start to get rid of "-usbdevice" and "usb_add" in the documentation. While we're at it, also add the new USB devices there which have been added to QEMU during the last years, and get rid of the old "vendorid" and "productid" parameters of "-usbdevice serial" which have been removed in QEMU version 0.14.0 already. Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-id: 1494256429-31720-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2017-05-10Merge remote-tracking branch 'mjt/tags/trivial-patches-fetch' into stagingStefan Hajnoczi
trivial patches for 2017-05-10 # gpg: Signature made Wed 10 May 2017 03:19:30 AM EDT # gpg: using RSA key 0x701B4F6B1A693E59 # gpg: Good signature from "Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>" # gpg: aka "Michael Tokarev <mjt@corpit.ru>" # gpg: aka "Michael Tokarev <mjt@debian.org>" # Primary key fingerprint: 6EE1 95D1 886E 8FFB 810D 4324 457C E0A0 8044 65C5 # Subkey fingerprint: 7B73 BAD6 8BE7 A2C2 8931 4B22 701B 4F6B 1A69 3E59 * mjt/tags/trivial-patches-fetch: (23 commits) tests: Remove redundant assignment MAINTAINERS: Update paths for AioContext implementation MAINTAINERS: Update paths for main loop jazz_led: fix bad snprintf tests: Ignore another built executable (test-hmp) scripts: Switch to more portable Perl shebang scripts/qemu-binfmt-conf.sh: Fix shell portability issue virtfs: allow a device id to be specified in the -virtfs option hw/core/generic-loader: Fix crash when running without CPU virtio-blk: Remove useless condition around g_free() qemu-doc: Fix broken URLs of amnhltm.zip and dosidle210.zip use _Static_assert in QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON channel-file: fix wrong parameter comments block: Make 'replication_state' an enum util: Use g_malloc/g_free in envlist.c qga: fix compiler warnings (clang 5) device_tree: fix compiler warnings (clang 5) usb-ccid: make ccid_write_data_block() cope with null buffers tests: Ignore more test executables Add 'none' as type for drive's if option ... Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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