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From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Always use KVM_VERSION to build version number
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:52:12 +0100
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On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 12:46 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/10/2009 12:19 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> >
> > Or we could drop this kvm snapshot numbering system and just use qemu
> > VERSION numbering - i.e. qemu-kvm-devel-88 could have been published as
> > qemu-kvm-0.10.50
> >    
> 
> Yeah.  You still couldn't distinguish among different snapshots.

0.10.51, 0.10.52 etc.

> >> How about adding 'qemu -describe-features' which will output, one line
> >> per feature, what's supported (and limits where applicable)?  I
> >> understand libvirt already does this for some features using -help; this
> >> is simply a formalization of that hack.
> >>      
> >
> > Yes, libvirt would much rather not parse -help or use version numbers to
> > detect whether features are available.
> >
> > We should revisit the "info capabilities" thing again:
> >
> >    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-11/msg00767.html
> >    
> 
> Logically it needs to work before starting a VM, so a command line 
> option is more appropriate.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-11/msg00899.html

Cheers,
Mark.