These changes match those made in the following libvirt commits:
2ac78307af docs: Clarify our stance on backported packages
78cffd450a docs: Spell out our policy concerning minor releases
Since QEMU's platform support policy is based on libvirt's, it
makes sense to mirror these recent changes made to the latter.
The policy is not altered significantly - we're simply spelling
out some rules that were likely already being implicitly
enforced.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The note about the removal of '-soundhw' has been accidentally added
to the section of removed "linux-user mode CPUs" ... it should reside
in the section about removed "System emulator command line arguments"
instead.
Fixes: 039a68373c ("introduce -audio as a replacement for -soundhw")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
Message-Id: <20220802075611.346835-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Commit cf60ccc330 ("cutils: Introduce bundle mechanism") introduced
a Python script to populate a bundle directory using os.symlink() to
point to the binaries in the pc-bios directory of the source tree.
Commit 882084a04a ("datadir: Use bundle mechanism") removed previous
logic in pc-bios/meson.build to create a link/copy of pc-bios binaries
in the build tree so os.symlink() is the way to go.
However os.symlink() may fail [1] on Windows if an unprivileged Windows
user started the QEMU build process, which results in QEMU executables
generated in the build tree not able to load the default BIOS/firmware
images due to symbolic links not present in the bundle directory.
This commits updates the documentation by adding such caveats for users
who want to build QEMU on the Windows platform.
[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.symlink
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20220719135014.764981-1-bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Developers often run QEMU without installing. The bundle mechanism
allows to look up files which should be present in installation even in
such a situation.
It is a general mechanism and can find any files in the installation
tree. The build tree will have a new directory, qemu-bundle, to
represent what files the installation tree would have for reference by
the executables.
Note that it abandons compatibility with Windows older than 8. The
extended support for the prior version, 7 ended more than 2 years ago,
and it is unlikely that someone would like to run the latest QEMU on
such an old system.
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220624145039.49929-3-akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
In 60592cfed2 ("hw/arm/virt: dt: add kaslr-seed property"), the
kaslr-seed property was added, but the equally as important rng-seed
property was forgotten about, which has identical semantics for a
similar purpose. This commit implements it in exactly the same way as
kaslr-seed. It then changes the name of the disabling option to reflect
that this has more to do with randomness vs determinism, rather than
something particular about kaslr.
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
[PMM: added deprecated.rst section for the deprecation]
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
nanoMIPS ISA support in QEMU is actively used by MediaTek and is
planned to be maintained and potentially extended by MediaTek in
future.
Un-orphan nanoMIPS ISA support in QEMU by setting a maintainer from
MediaTek and remove deprecation notes from documentation as well.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Pejic <stefan.pejic@syrmia.com>
Message-Id: <20220504110403.613168-8-stefan.pejic@syrmia.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Since version 5.2 commit 6eb7a07129 ("hw/block/nvme: change controller
pci id"), the emulated NVMe controller has defaulted to a non-Intel PCI
identifier.
Deprecate the compatibility parameter so we can get rid of it once and
for all.
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: Klaus Jensen <k.jensen@samsung.com>
We cannot provide auto-generated unique or persistent namespace
identifiers (EUI64, NGUID, UUID) easily. Since 6.1, namespaces have been
assigned a generated EUI64 of the form "52:54:00:<namespace counter>".
This is will be unique within a QEMU instance, but not globally.
Revert that this is assigned automatically and immediately deprecate the
compatibility parameter. Users can opt-in to this with the
`eui64-default=on` device parameter or set it explicitly with
`eui64=UINT64`.
Cc: libvir-list@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Klaus Jensen <k.jensen@samsung.com>
We have "-sdl" and "-curses", but no "-gtk" and no "-cocoa" ...
these old-style options are rather confusing than helpful nowadays.
Now that the deprecation period is over, let's remove them, so we
get a cleaner interface (where "-display" is the only way to select
the user interface).
Message-Id: <20220519155625.1414365-4-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Our support statement for Windows currently talks about "Vista / Server
2008" - which is related to the API of Windows, and this is not easy
to understand for the non-technical users. Additionally, glib sets the
_WIN32_WINNT macro to 0x0601 already, which indicates the Windows 7 API,
so QEMU effectively depends on the Windows 7 API, too.
Thus let's bump the _WIN32_WINNT setting in QEMU to the same level as
glib uses and adjust our support statement in the documentation to
something similar that we're using for Linux and the *BSD systems
(i.e. only the two most recent versions), which should hopefully be
easier to understand for the users now.
And since we're nowadays also compile-testing QEMU with MSYS2 on Windows
itself, I think we could mention this build environment here, too.
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/880
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Message-Id: <20220513063958.1181443-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
-audio is used like "-audio pa,model=sb16". It is almost as simple as
-soundhw, but it reuses the -audiodev parsing machinery and attaches an
audiodev to the newly-created device. The main 'feature' is that
it knows about adding the codec device for model=intel-hda, and adding
the audiodev to the codec device.
In the future, it could be extended to support default models or
builtin devices, just like -nic, or even a default backend. For now,
keep it simple.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The ``opened=on`` option in the command line or QMP ``object-add`` either had
no effect (if ``opened`` was the last option) or caused errors. The property
is therefore useless and was deprecated in 6.0; make it read-only now.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The ``loaded=on`` option in the command line or QMP ``object-add`` either had
no effect (if ``loaded`` was the last option) or caused options to be
effectively ignored as if they were not given. The property is therefore
useless and was deprecated in 6.0; make it read-only now.
The patch is best reviewed with "-b".
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Icelake, is the codename for Intel 3rd generation Xeon Scalable server
processors. There isn't ever client variants. This "Icelake-Client" CPU
model was added wrongly and imaginarily.
It has been deprecated since v5.2, now it's time to remove it completely
from code.
Signed-off-by: Robert Hoo <robert.hu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1647247859-4947-1-git-send-email-robert.hu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Like -set and -readconfig, it would not really be too hard to
extend -writeconfig to parsing mechanisms other than QemuOpts.
However, the uses of -writeconfig are substantially more
limited, as it is generally easier to write the configuration
by hand in the first place. In addition, -writeconfig does
not even try to detect cases where it prints incorrect
syntax (for example if values have a quote in them, since
qemu_config_parse does not support any kind of escaping.
Just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220414145721.326866-1-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Users requiring FIPS support must build QEMU with either the libgcrypt
or gnutls libraries as the crytography backend.
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The list of machine types grows larger and larger each release ... and
it is unlikely that many people still use the very old ones for live
migration. QEMU v1.7 has been released more than 8 years ago, so most
people should have updated their machines to a newer version in those
8 years at least once. Thus let's mark the very old 1.x machine types
as deprecated now.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220117191639.278497-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
