[Qemu-devel] bootindex dropped from -device virtio-blk, ? output, upsets libvirt

[Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>]

Hi all,

qemu-2.1-rc0 upsets some of libvirt's qemu feature introspection, the example
I hit is with bootindex support. qemu -device virtio-blk,? no longer lists the
bootindex= property, so libvirt thinks that qemu doesn't support it, and fails
to launch a VM with per-device boot order configuration.

The qemu culprit is:

commit caffdac363801cd2cf2bf01ad013a8c1e1e43800
Author: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 18 17:58:33 2014 +0800

    virtio-blk: use aliases instead of duplicate qdev properties

These alias properties aren't printed in qdev-monitor.c:qdev_device_help. In
fact I'm not sure if aliases are even accessible in that function, since the
they are only registered at instance init time, and I don't think any device
has actually been initialized when qdev_device_help is called. That's my
reading anyways.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Cole