Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr: skip adding usb keyboard/mouse in case of -nodefaults

[Markus Armbruster]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

> Il 04/04/2014 12:58, Markus Armbruster ha scritto:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Have you considered extending QEMUMachineInitArgs instead of adding this
>>>> >> function?
>>> >
>>> > Did not think of this option earlier. You mean doing something like
>>> > this?
>> Yes.  Looks nicer, doesn't it?
>
> I still think it's a libvirt bug.  Mixing -nodefaults and -usb and
> -device is looking for trouble I think.  "-usb" is a do-what-I-mean
> kind of option and it makes sense for it to add a keyboard and mouse,
> even with -nodefaults.

I agree that management tools should not use -usb, except when they want
to manage ancient versions of QEMU for some reason.