Re: [PATCH 04/14] hw/i386/vmport: Introduce vmx-version property

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 01:54:01AM +0200, Liran Alon wrote:
> Instead of hard-coding the VMX version, make it a VMPORT object property.
> This would allow user to control it's value via "-global vmport.vmx-version=X".
> 
> Reviewed-by: Nikita Leshenko <nikita.leshchenko@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>

More detail on why this is useful?

> ---
>  hw/i386/vmport.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/i386/vmport.c b/hw/i386/vmport.c
> index 7c21e56081b0..a2c8ff4b59cf 100644
> --- a/hw/i386/vmport.c
> +++ b/hw/i386/vmport.c
> @@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ typedef struct VMPortState {
>      MemoryRegion io;
>      VMPortReadFunc *func[VMPORT_ENTRIES];
>      void *opaque[VMPORT_ENTRIES];
> +
> +    uint32_t vmx_version;
>  } VMPortState;
>  
>  static VMPortState *port_state;
> @@ -112,7 +114,7 @@ static uint32_t vmport_cmd_get_version(void *opaque, uint32_t addr)
>      X86CPU *cpu = X86_CPU(current_cpu);
>  
>      cpu->env.regs[R_EBX] = VMPORT_MAGIC;
> -    return 6;
> +    return port_state->vmx_version;
>  }
>  
>  static uint32_t vmport_cmd_ram_size(void *opaque, uint32_t addr)
> @@ -169,6 +171,8 @@ static void vmport_realizefn(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>  }
>  
>  static Property vmport_properties[] = {
> +    /* Default value taken from open-vm-tools code VERSION_MAGIC definition */
> +    DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("vmx-version", VMPortState, vmx_version, 6),
>      DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
>  };
>  
> -- 
> 2.20.1