Re: [Qemu-devel] Staging update (0.12 pending freeze)

[Anthony Liguori]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 12/02/09 17:46, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> > If you have a pending patch that you think should be in 0.12, please
> > check to make sure it's there.
>
> A clear 'must have':
>
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/39291/
>   Add a new machine type for qemu 0.12
>
> On top of that, to reduce irq sharing (nice to have):
>
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/39294/
>   virtio: enable msi-x for console+balloon
>
> This bugfix ('must have' IMHO):
>
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/39311/
>   make chardevs specified in config file work
>
> Also useful (nice to have):
>
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/39202/
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/39201/
>   add command line option to set global defaults for properties

Got all this, thanks.

> Finally the 'default devices' patch series ('must have' IMHO):
>
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/39180/ (patch 1/10)
>
> Without that one using -device and -readconfig becomes much harder.

This series doesn't get along with the QMP monitor support that's been 
added recently.  That's because there is now a set of monitor flags and 
-monitor takes more than a character device as an argument.

Honestly, I don't really like multiplexing the -monitor option to 
support qmp.  I think I would have a proper -qmp option at the top 
level.  That would integrate much more nicely too with this default 
devices series.  Luiz, what do you think?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori