Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 16/30] q35/xen: Add Xen platform device support for Q35

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 04:34:01AM +1000, Alexey Gerasimenko wrote:
> Current Xen/QEMU method to control Xen Platform device on i440 is a bit
> odd -- enabling/disabling Xen platform device actually modifies the QEMU
> emulated machine type, namely xenfv <--> pc.
> 
> In order to avoid multiplying machine types, use a new way to control Xen
> Platform device for QEMU -- "xen-platform-dev" machine property (bool).
> To maintain backward compatibility with existing Xen/QEMU setups, this
> is only applicable to q35 machine currently. i440 emulation still uses the
> old method (i.e. xenfv/pc machine selection) to control Xen Platform
> device, this may be changed later to xen-platform-dev property as well.
> 
> This way we can use a single machine type (q35) and change just
> xen-platform-dev value to on/off to control Xen platform device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Gerasimenko <x1917x@gmail.com>
> ---
[...]
> diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
> index 6585058c6c..cee0b92028 100644
> --- a/qemu-options.hx
> +++ b/qemu-options.hx
> @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ DEF("machine", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_machine, \
>      "                dump-guest-core=on|off include guest memory in a core dump (default=on)\n"
>      "                mem-merge=on|off controls memory merge support (default: on)\n"
>      "                igd-passthru=on|off controls IGD GFX passthrough support (default=off)\n"
> +    "                xen-platform-dev=on|off controls Xen Platform device (default=off)\n"
>      "                aes-key-wrap=on|off controls support for AES key wrapping (default=on)\n"
>      "                dea-key-wrap=on|off controls support for DEA key wrapping (default=on)\n"
>      "                suppress-vmdesc=on|off disables self-describing migration (default=off)\n"

What are the obstacles preventing "-device xen-platform" from
working?  It would be better than adding a new boolean option to
-machine.

-- 
Eduardo