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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/9] qemu capabilities reporting and
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>

  Hi,

>> I have a few patches here that convert almost every option that matters
>> into QemuOpts so that -writeconfig records it: -m, -bios, -localtime,
>> -S, -M, -smp, -numa, -nodefaults, -no-shutdown, -no-reboot.  The only
>> thing that is left basically is -display, where I chickened out.
> 
> This series is complimentary to this.  You can still promote options to
> QemuOpts.  The advantage of this series is that we provide a
> programmatic way for libvirt to discover when this happens.

It is still churn, especially considering that paolo has patches
already.  I'd suggest to go with your patches without [system] + paolo's
QemuOpts convert patches, then stick the remaining bits (if any) into
[system].

cheers,
  Gerd