[libvirt] [PATCHv2 11/11] qemu: format options for enforcing virtio revisions

Boris Fiuczynski fiuczy at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Aug 10 14:27:58 UTC 2016


On 08/08/2016 06:35 PM, Ján Tomko wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227354
>
> Translate the optional <virtio revision> attribute to
> disable-legacy=on/off and disable-modern=on/off options
> for the following devices:
>
> <memballoon>    virtio-balloon-pci
> <disk>          virtio-blk-pci
> <controller>    virtio-scsi-pci
>                 virtio-serial-pci
> <filesystem>    virtio-9p-pci
> <interface>     virtio-net-pci
> <rng>           virtio-rng-pci
> <video>         virtio-gpu-pci
> <input>         virtio-input-host-pci
>                 virtio-keyboard-pci
>                 virtio-mouse-pci
>                 virtio-tablet-pci
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_command.c                            | 56 +++++++++++++++++++
>  .../qemuxml2argv-virtio-revision.args              | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c                           | 11 ++++
>  3 files changed, 129 insertions(+)

Although you mention in all above devices the type of bus in the code 
that differentiation does not really exist. It originates from the way 
the capability QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VIRTIO_REVISION is sensed and set, e.g. 
virQEMUCapsObjectPropsVirtioBalloon[] is also used for 
virtio-balloon-ccw devices.
I would suggest to create a QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VIRTIO_PCI_REVISION and 
sense the capability for pci only and also generate the command line 
parameters for pci only since the virtio pci revision handling does not 
work at all for virtio ccw.


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