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2ca81baa 02/22/2013 12:33 am Jason Wang

help: add docs for multiqueue tap options

Cc: Markus Armbruster <>
Cc: Jason Wang <>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <>
Message-id:
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
6265c43b 02/18/2013 04:39 pm Markus Armbruster

doc: Fill some option doc gaps in manual page and qemu-doc

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>
Message-id:
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
c70a01e4 02/18/2013 04:39 pm Markus Armbruster

doc: Fix texinfo @table markup in qemu-options.hx

End tables before headings, start new ones afterwards. Fixes
incorrect indentation of headings "File system options" and "Virtual
File system pass-through options" in manual page and qemu-doc.

Normalize markup some to increase chances it survives future edits....
f0378099 02/18/2013 04:39 pm Markus Armbruster

help: Fix markup of heading "USB options" so it appears in -help

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>
Message-id:
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
84644c45 02/18/2013 04:39 pm Markus Armbruster

doc help: A few options are under inappropriate headings, fix

--device is under heading "USB options". --name and --uuid are under
"Virtual File system pass-through options". Move all three to
"Standard options".

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <>...
10adb8be 02/18/2013 04:39 pm Markus Armbruster

doc help: Collect block device stuff under its own heading

Collect them from "Standard options", "File system options", "Virtual
File system pass-through options", "Debug/Expert options".

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>...
31e70d6c 02/18/2013 04:39 pm Markus Armbruster

help: Drop bogus help on -qtest and -qtest-log

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>
Message-id:
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
b8f490eb 02/18/2013 04:39 pm Markus Armbruster

doc: Fix some option entries in qemu-doc's function index

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>
Message-id:
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
d037d6bb 02/13/2013 07:57 pm Markus Armbruster

chardev: Fix manual page and qemu-doc for -chardev tty

Broken in commit d59044ef.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <>
Message-id:
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
3949e594 02/07/2013 12:35 am Markus Armbruster

qemu-char: Saner naming of memchar stuff & doc fixes

New device, has never been released, so we can still improve things
without worrying about compatibility.

Naming is a mess. The code calls the device driver CirMemCharDriver,
the public API calls it "memory", "memchardev", or "memchar", and the...
51767e7c 01/25/2013 03:23 pm Lei Li

qemu-char: Add new char backend CirMemCharDriver

Signed-off-by: Lei Li <>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <>
7536ee4b 01/21/2013 09:33 pm Tim Hardeck

vnc: added initial websocket protocol support

This patch adds basic Websocket Protocol version 13 - RFC 6455 - support
to QEMU VNC. Binary encoding support on the client side is mandatory.

Because of the GnuTLS requirement the Websockets implementation is...
d59044ef 01/16/2013 07:58 am Gerd Hoffmann

chardev: add serial chardev support to chardev-add (qmp)

Similar to file, except that no separate in/out files are supported
because it's pointless for direct device access. Also the special
tty ioctl hooks (pass through linespeed settings etc) are activated...
88a946d3 01/16/2013 07:58 am Gerd Hoffmann

chardev: add parallel chardev support to chardev-add (qmp)

Also alias the old parport name to parallel for -chardev.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <>
5a49d3e9 12/17/2012 03:01 pm Marc-André Lureau

spice-qemu-char: add spiceport chardev

Add a new spice chardev to allow arbitrary communication between the
host and the Spice client via the spice server.

Examples:

This allows the Spice client to have a special port for the qemu
monitor:

... -chardev spiceport,name=org.qemu.monitor,id=monitorport...
3528a3cb 12/07/2012 01:34 pm Michal Privoznik

qemu-options: Fix space at EOL

There's no need to add a space at the end of line.
Moreover, it can make problems in some projects that
store the help output into a file (and run couple of
tests based on that) and have space at EOL forbidden.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <>...
a13e5e05 11/30/2012 12:33 pm Kevin Wolf

Documentation: Update block cache mode information

Somehow we forgot to update this when cache=writeback became the
default. While changing the information on the default, also make the
description of all caches modes a bit more accurate.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>...
c6e88b3b 11/23/2012 02:37 pm Bruce Rogers

Legacy qemu-kvm options have no argument

The options no-kvm, no-kvm-pit, no-kvm-pit-reinjection, and no-kvm-irqchip
should be marked as having no argument.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <>
a36e9561 11/19/2012 05:27 pm Anthony Liguori

Merge remote-tracking branch 'kiszka/queues/slirp' into staging

  • kiszka/queues/slirp:
    slirp: Add domain-search option to slirp's DHCP server
    slirp: Don't crash on packets from 0.0.0.0/8.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
ad1db3b3 11/19/2012 05:27 pm Anthony Liguori

Merge remote-tracking branch 'kwolf/for-anthony' into staging

  • kwolf/for-anthony: (26 commits)
    qemu-io: Use bdrv_drain_all instead of qemu_aio_flush
    megasas: Use bdrv_drain_all instead of qemu_aio_flush
    vmdk: Fix data corruption bug in WRITE and READ handling...
68d98d3e 11/16/2012 04:36 pm Anthony Liguori

vl: add -object option to create QOM objects from the command line

This will create a new QOM object in the '/objects' path. Note that properties
are set in order which allows for simple objects to be initialized entirely
with this option and then realized....
63d2960b 11/15/2012 11:27 am Klaus Stengel

slirp: Add domain-search option to slirp's DHCP server

This patch will allow the user to include the domain-search option in
replies from the built-in DHCP server. The domain suffixes can be
specified by adding dnssearch= entries to the "-net user" parameter....
8809e289 11/14/2012 07:19 pm Bharata B Rao

qemu: Document GlusterFS block driver usage

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>
a0dac021 10/31/2012 03:39 am Jan Kiszka

Emulate qemu-kvms -no-kvm option

Releases of qemu-kvm will be interrupted at qemu 1.3.0.
Users should switch to plain qemu releases.
To avoid breaking scenarios which are setup with command line
options specific to qemu-kvm, port these switches from qemu-kvm...
88eed34a 10/31/2012 03:39 am Jan Kiszka

Issue warning when deprecated -tdf option is used

Releases of qemu-kvm will be interrupted at qemu 1.3.0.
Users should switch to plain qemu releases.
To avoid breaking scenarios which are setup with command line
options specific to qemu-kvm, port these switches from qemu-kvm...
c21fb4f8 10/31/2012 03:39 am Jan Kiszka

Use global properties to emulate -no-kvm-pit-reinjection

Releases of qemu-kvm will be interrupted at qemu 1.3.0.
Users should switch to plain qemu releases.
To avoid breaking scenarios which are setup with command line
options specific to qemu-kvm, port these switches from qemu-kvm...
e43d594e 10/31/2012 03:39 am Jan Kiszka

Use machine options to emulate -no-kvm-irqchip

Releases of qemu-kvm will be interrupted at qemu 1.3.0.
Users should switch to plain qemu releases.
To avoid breaking scenarios which are setup with command line
options specific to qemu-kvm, port these switches from qemu-kvm...
4086bde8 10/31/2012 03:39 am Jan Kiszka

Issue warning when deprecated -no-kvm-pit is used

Releases of qemu-kvm will be interrupted at qemu 1.3.0.
Users should switch to plain qemu releases.
To avoid breaking scenarios which are setup with command line
options specific to qemu-kvm, port these switches from qemu-kvm...
587ed6be 10/24/2012 11:26 am Corey Bryant

qemu-config: Add new -add-fd command line option

This option can be used for passing file descriptors on the
command line. It mirrors the existing add-fd QMP command which
allows an fd to be passed to QEMU via SCM_RIGHTS and added to an
fd set.

This can be combined with commands such as -drive to link file...
585f6036 10/19/2012 09:29 pm Peter Maydell

qemu-options.hx: Change from recommending '?' to 'help'

Update the -help output and documentation so that it recommends
'help' rather than '?' for the various "list valid values for this
option" cases. '?' is deprecated (as it can fail confusingly if
not quoted), so it's better to steer users towards 'help'. ('?'...
ac05f349 09/26/2012 04:05 am Amos Kong

add a boot parameter to set reboot timeout

Added an option to let qemu transfer a configuration file to bios,
"etc/boot-fail-wait", which could be specified by command
-boot reboot-timeout=T
T have a max value of 0xffff, unit is ms.

With this option, guest will wait for a given time if not find...
de71bd6f 09/17/2012 06:20 pm Anthony Liguori

Merge remote-tracking branch 'stefanha/net' into staging

  • stefanha/net:
    net: EAGAIN handling for net/socket.c TCP
    net: EAGAIN handling for net/socket.c UDP
    net: asynchronous send/receive infrastructure for net/socket.c
    net: broadcast hub packets if at least one port can receive...
8490fc78 09/17/2012 06:18 pm Luiz Capitulino

add -machine mem-merge=on|off option

It allows to disable memory merge support (KSM on Linux), which is
enabled by default otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
08d12022 09/14/2012 10:40 am Stefan Hajnoczi

net: add -netdev options to man page

Document the -netdev syntax which supercedes the older -net syntax.
This patch is a first step to making -netdev prominent in the QEMU
manual.

Reported-by: Anatoly Techtonik <>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>
8c957053 09/05/2012 06:11 pm Yonit Halperin

spice: adding seamless-migration option to the command line

The seamless-migration flag is required in order to identify
whether libvirt supports the new QEVENT_SPICE_MIGRATE_COMPLETED or not
(by default the flag is off).
New libvirt versions that wait for QEVENT_SPICE_MIGRATE_COMPLETED should turn on this flag....
27af7788 09/05/2012 06:11 pm Yonit Halperin

spice: increase the verbosity of spice section in "qemu --help"

Added all spice options to the help string. This can be used by libvirt
to determine which spice related features are supported by qemu.

Signed-off-by: Yonit Halperin <>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <>
e4558dca 08/27/2012 05:33 pm malc

Revert "qemu-options.hx: mention retrace= VGA option"

This reverts commit 39dda260628e5f2a3fd2ce2ec8a71f3d5ca309a9.

Signed-off-by: malc <>
df800210 08/27/2012 05:33 pm malc

Revert "vga: add some optional CGA compatibility hacks"

This reverts commit 482f7bf86b43af9f6903c52726fedf82b28bf953.

Signed-off-by: malc <>
4f213879 08/27/2012 05:33 pm malc

Revert "i8259: add -no-spurious-interrupt-hack option"

This reverts commit f278d4947fff814dcde2ef2acad36d172ff8be35.

Signed-off-by: malc <>
482f7bf8 08/24/2012 06:44 am Matthew Ogilvie

vga: add some optional CGA compatibility hacks

This patch adds some optional compatibility hacks (default
disabled) to allow Microport UNIX to function under qemu.

I've tried to structure it to be easy to add more hacks for other
old CGA programs, if anyone ever needs them....
f278d494 08/24/2012 06:44 am Matthew Ogilvie

i8259: add -no-spurious-interrupt-hack option

This patch provides a way to optionally suppress spurious interrupts,
as a workaround for systems described below:

Some old operating systems do not handle spurious interrupts well,
and qemu tends to generate them significantly more often than...
39dda260 08/24/2012 06:44 am Matthew Ogilvie

qemu-options.hx: mention retrace= VGA option

The feature was added in commit cb5a7aa8c32141bb Sep 2008.
My description is based on "Better VGA retrace emulation (needed
for some DOS games/demos)" from
http://www.boblycat.org/~malc/code/patches/qemu/index.html...
7d76ad4f 08/16/2012 09:41 pm Eduardo Otubo

Command line support for seccomp with -sandbox (v8)

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Otubo <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
---
v7 -> v8
- Parse options correctly (aliguori)
ddb97f1d 08/16/2012 09:41 pm Jason Baron

memory: add -machine dump-guest-core=on|off

Add a new '[,dump-guest-core=on|off]' option to the '-machine' option. When
'dump-guest-core=off' is specified, guest memory is omitted from the core dump.
The default behavior continues to be to include guest memory when a core dump is...
31459f46 08/09/2012 04:04 pm Ronnie Sahlberg

iscsi: Pick default initiator-name based on the name of the VM

This patch updates the iscsi layer to automatically pick a 'unique'
initiator-name based on the name of the vm in case the user has not set
an explicit iqn-name to use.

Create a new function qemu_get_vm_name() that returns the name of the VM,...
0f66998f 08/03/2012 10:28 pm Paul Moore

vnc: disable VNC password authentication (security type 2) when in FIPS mode

FIPS 140-2 requires disabling certain ciphers, including DES, which is used
by VNC to obscure passwords when they are sent over the network. The
solution for FIPS users is to disable the use of VNC password auth when the...
c8057f95 08/02/2012 09:16 pm Peter Maydell

Support 'help' as a synonym for '?' in command line options

For command line options which permit '?' meaning 'please list the
permitted values', add support for 'help' as a synonym, by abstracting
the check out into a helper function.

This change means that in some cases where we were being lazy in...
43ffe61f 07/21/2012 12:54 pm Stefan Weil

Fix some more Qemus in documentation and help text

Hopefully they will be eliminated one day.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>
ed24cfac 07/17/2012 11:40 pm Michal Novotny

qemu-options.hx: Improve -{read|write}config options description

This is the patch to improve description for -{read|write}config
functions.

Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
66c19bf1 07/17/2012 11:40 pm Michal Novotny

qemu-options.hx: Improve -nodefaults description

This patch improves the description of -nodefaults QEMU command line
option by adding more information what is being disabled using this
command.

Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
86ee5bc3 07/17/2012 11:40 pm Michal Novotny

qemu-options.hx: Fix set_password and expire_password description

The description for set_password and expire_password commands is
incomplete. This patch fixes the man page that is being generated
to match the real behaviour of these functions.

Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <>...
b412eb61 07/09/2012 06:38 pm Alexander Graf

slirp: add 'cmd:' target for guestfwd

When using guestfwd=, Qemu only connects the virtual server's TCP port
to a single chardev. This is useless in most cases, as we usually want
to have more than a single connection from the guest to the outside world....
82ac96a7 05/14/2012 06:06 pm Anthony Liguori

Merge remote-tracking branch 'sweil/for-1.1' into staging

  • sweil/for-1.1:
    qemu-doc: Use QEMU instead of qemu for product name
    qemu-doc: Fix executable name in examples
    qemu-doc: Add missing parameter in description of -D option
    configure: Use QEMU instead of Qemu...
8bd383b4 05/14/2012 08:27 am Stefan Weil

qemu-doc: Add missing parameter in description of -D option

'logfile' is a place holder for a non optional parameter.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <>
3804da9d 05/14/2012 08:27 am Stefan Weil

qemu-doc: Fix executable name in examples

The executable name qemu was replaced some time ago by qemu-system-i386.
Fix all examples accordingly.

Some examples will only work with qemu-system-i386 or qemu-system-x86_64
for obvious reasons ("dos.img").

To keep things simple, I did not vary the executable name....
b65ee4fa 05/14/2012 08:27 am Stefan Weil

qemu-doc: Use QEMU instead of qemu for product name

When 'qemu' was used as a product name or as a generic process name,
it is now replaced by the official upper case 'QEMU'.

v2:
Added missing period (hint from Andreas Färber).

Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <>...
f29a5614 05/10/2012 08:37 pm Eduardo Habkost

implement -no-user-config command-line option (v3)

Changes v2 -> v3:
- Rebase against latest qemu.git

Changes v1 -> v2:
- Change 'userconfig' field/variables to bool instead of int
- Coding style change

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <>...
071c9394 04/07/2012 04:58 pm Stefan Weil

Replace Qemu by QEMU in user visible documentation

The official spelling is QEMU.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <>
b7c8e15a 03/31/2012 03:10 pm Blue Swirl

Merge branch 'arm-devs.for-upstream' of git://git.linaro.org/people/pmaydell/qemu-arm

  • 'arm-devs.for-upstream' of git://git.linaro.org/people/pmaydell/qemu-arm:
    pl031: switch clock base to rtc_clock
    pl031: rearm alarm timer upon load
    arm: switch real-time clocks to rtc_clock...
c7f0f3b1 03/30/2012 04:14 pm Anthony Liguori

qtest: add test framework

The idea behind qtest is pretty simple. Instead of executing a CPU via TCG or
KVM, rely on an external process to send events to the device model that the CPU
would normally generate.

qtest presents itself as an accelerator. In addition, a new option is added to...
78808141 03/30/2012 01:31 pm Paolo Bonzini

rtc: add -rtc clock=rt

This will let people use backwards-compatible semantics for devices that
will be affected by the following patches.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <>
3017b72c 03/26/2012 10:21 pm Miroslav Rezanina

Man page: Add -global description

There's only TODO information in qemu man page for -global option. This is a basic description of this option with simple example.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <>

v4:
- break long line

v3:
- add use case description...
379b5c7c 03/06/2012 12:00 am Peter A. G. Crosthwaite

qemu-options.hx: allow -dtb argument for all archs

Signed-off-by: Peter A. G. Crosthwaite <>
Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <>
412beee6 03/02/2012 01:56 pm Grant Likely

arm: add device tree support

If compiled with CONFIG_FDT, allow user to specify a device tree file using
the -dtb argument. If the machine supports it then the dtb will be loaded
into memory and passed to the kernel on boot.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <>...
6c263e26 02/16/2012 02:41 am Anthony Liguori

Merge remote-tracking branch 'qemu-kvm/uq/master' into staging

  • qemu-kvm/uq/master:
    apic: Fix legacy vmstate loading for KVM
    kvm: Implement kvm_irqchip_in_kernel like kvm_enabled
    kvm: Allow to set shadow MMU size
cf5cfe04 02/16/2012 02:40 am Anthony Liguori

Merge remote-tracking branch 'kraxel/vnc.2' into staging

  • kraxel/vnc.2:
    vnc: lift modifier keys on client disconnect.
    vnc: implement shared flag handling.
    vnc: fix ctrl key in vnc terminal emulation
    Fix vnc memory corruption with width = 1400
8cf36489 02/10/2012 10:58 am Gerd Hoffmann

vnc: implement shared flag handling.

VNC clients send a shared flag in the client init message. Up to now
qemu completely ignores this. This patch implements shared flag
handling. It comes with three policies: By default qemu behaves as one
would expect: Asking for a exclusive access grants exclusive access to...
f9dadc98 02/09/2012 05:17 pm Ronnie Sahlberg

iSCSI: add configuration variables for iSCSI

This patch adds configuration variables for iSCSI to set
initiator-name to use when logging in to the target,
which type of header-digest to negotiate with the target
and username and password for CHAP authentication....
39d6960a 02/08/2012 07:57 pm Jan Kiszka

kvm: Allow to set shadow MMU size

Introduce the KVM-specific machine option kvm_shadow_mem. It allows to
set a custom shadow MMU size for the virtual machine. This is useful for
stress testing e.g.

Only x86 supports this for now, but it is in principle a generic...
dc717bfd 02/08/2012 03:23 pm Anthony Liguori

Merge remote-tracking branch 'aneesh/for-upstream' into staging

  • aneesh/for-upstream:
    hw/9pfs: Remove O_NOATIME flag from 9pfs open() calls in readonly mode
    hw/9pfs: Update MAINTAINERS file
    fsdev: Fix parameter parsing for proxy helper
    hw/9pfs: Fix crash when mounting with synthfs...
a7c36ee4 02/02/2012 12:24 am Corey Bryant

Add support for net bridge

The most common use of -net tap is to connect a tap device to a bridge. This
requires the use of a script and running qemu as root in order to allocate a
tap device to pass to the script.

This model is great for portability and flexibility but it's incredibly...
6a48ffaa 01/19/2012 01:14 pm Jan Kiszka

kvm: Activate in-kernel irqchip support

Make the basic in-kernel irqchip support selectable via
-machine ...,kernel_irqchip=on. Leave it off by default until it can
fully replace user space models.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <>
2c30dd74 01/19/2012 08:51 am Aneesh Kumar K.V

hw/9pfs: Add new security model mapped-file.

This enable us to do passthrough equivalent security model on NFS directory.
NFS server mostly do root squashing and don't support xattr. Hence we cannot
use 'passthrough' or 'mapped' security model

Also added "mapped-xattr" security to indicate earlier "mapped" security model...
0e0e7fac 01/12/2012 06:34 pm Benjamin

Support for UDP unicast network backend

Signed-off-by: Benjamin MARSILI <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
a2e4d53e 01/06/2012 08:51 pm Anthony Liguori

Merge remote-tracking branch 'stefanha/trivial-patches' into staging

  • stefanha/trivial-patches:
    qemu-nbd: drop loop which can never loop
    Make python mandatory
    net/socket.c: Fix fd leak in net_socket_listen_init() error paths
    gdbstub: Fix fd leak in gdbserver_open() error path...
d70d6b31 01/06/2012 05:07 pm Alon Levy

qemu-options.hx: fix tls-channel help text

Remove the default compiled out tunnel channel, add the always available
cursor channel. Optimally the man page would depend on compiled in
options, but that's harder to do.

RHBZ: 688586

Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <>...
84a87cc4 01/04/2012 05:53 pm M. Mohan Kumar

hw/9pfs: Add support to use named socket for proxy FS

Add option to use named socket for communicating between proxy helper
and qemu proxy FS. Access to socket can be given by using command line
options -u and -g.

Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <>...
f67e3ffd 01/04/2012 05:53 pm M. Mohan Kumar

hw/9pfs: Documentation changes related to proxy fs

Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <>
a3adb7ad 12/19/2011 06:27 pm Michael Ellerman

vl.c: In qemu -h output, only print options for the arch we are running as

Only print options in the help output that are accepted by our arch.
This is less confusing for users and also for other programs that
consume the help output.

The options affected are:...
b1746ddd 12/19/2011 06:27 pm Michael Ellerman

Documentation: Move balloon option out of i386 only section

The balloon option is not i386 only, so move it into the standard
options section.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
e7d81004 12/14/2011 01:09 pm Stefan Weil

Fix spelling in comments, documentation and messages

accidently->accidentally
annother->another
choosen->chosen
consideres->considers
decriptor->descriptor
developement->development
paramter->parameter
preceed->precede
preceeding->preceding
priviledge->privilege...
fb0490f6 12/05/2011 03:51 pm Stefan Hajnoczi

block: add -drive copy-on-read=on|off

This patch adds the -drive copy-on-read=on|off command-line option:

copy-on-read=on|off
  copy-on-read is "on" or "off" and enables whether to copy read backing
  file sectors into the image file.  Copy-on-read avoids accessing the...
0563e191 12/05/2011 03:51 pm Zhi Yong Wu

block: add the blockio limits command line support

Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>
8494a397 10/31/2011 06:09 pm Anthony Liguori

Merge remote-tracking branch 'kwolf/for-anthony' into staging

Conflicts:
block/vmdk.c
9db221ae 10/31/2011 09:04 am Aneesh Kumar K.V

hw/9pfs: Add synthetic file system support using 9p

This patch create a synthetic file system with mount tag
v_synth when -virtfs_synth command line option is specified
in qemu. The synthetic file system can be mounted in guest
using 9p using the below command line...
2c74c2cb 10/31/2011 09:04 am M. Mohan Kumar

hw/9pfs: Read-only support for 9p export

A new fsdev parameter "readonly" is introduced to control accessing 9p export.
"readonly" can be used to specify the access type. By default "rw" access
is given to 9p export.

Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <>...
d9990228 10/28/2011 08:25 pm Ronnie Sahlberg

Documentation: Add syntax for using sheepdog devices

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>
0f5314a2 10/28/2011 08:25 pm Ronnie Sahlberg

Documentation: Add iSCSI section

Add new section for device URL syntax for special files and describe the iSCSI
URL with examples

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>
08ae330e 10/28/2011 08:25 pm Ronnie Sahlberg

Documentation: Describe NBD URL syntax

This patch adds a short description of how to specify a NBD device
to QEMU.
Syntax for both TCP and Unix Domain Sockets are provided as well
as examples.

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>
1f99b949 10/20/2011 04:42 pm Anthony Liguori

Merge remote-tracking branch 'aneesh/for-upstream-6' into staging

Conflicts:
trace-events
d9b36a6e 10/15/2011 01:00 pm M. Mohan Kumar

hw/9pfs: Handle Security model parsing

Except local fs driver all other fs drivers (handle, synth) don't need
security model. Update fsdev parameter parsing accordingly.

Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <>
7c92a3d2 10/15/2011 01:00 pm Aneesh Kumar K.V

qemu-options.hx: Update virtfs command documentation

Clarify the virtfs option better
Updates from:Sripathi Kodi <>

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <>
3a846906 10/14/2011 04:36 pm Stefan Hajnoczi

qemu-options: avoid #if in spicevmc texi help

Preprocessor directives cannot be used in STEXI/ETEXI sections since
they are not passed through the preprocessor. The spicevmc chardev
option help currently uses #if, which is included verbatim in the man
page output....
d3ab98e6 10/12/2011 04:41 pm Aneesh Kumar K.V

hw/9pfs: Add new virtfs option writeout=immediate skip host page cache

writeout=immediate implies the after pwritev we do a sync_file_range.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <>
1ddeaa5d 09/10/2011 07:57 pm Max Filippov

target-xtensa: implement SIMCALL

Tensilica iss provides support for applications running in freestanding
environment through SIMCALL command. It is used by Tensilica libc to
access argc/argv, for file I/O, etc.

Note that simcalls that accept buffer addresses expect virtual addresses....
c1ba4e0b 09/09/2011 11:43 am Stefan Weil

qemu-options: Improve help texts for options which depend on configure

  • Replace "available only" by the more common "only available".
  • Tracing options depend on the configuration of the QEMU executable,
    so clarify the help text for both options.

Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <>...
e2d8830e 09/03/2011 08:45 pm Brad

Allow overriding the location of Samba's smbd.

Allow overriding the location of Samba's smbd.

Pretty much every OS I look at has some means of
changing this path (patching) so lets just make
it easier for OS developers creating packages
and/or end users to override the location....
23d15e86 09/01/2011 12:34 pm Lluís

trace: add "-trace events" argument to control initial state

The "-trace events" argument can be used to provide a file with a list of trace
event names that will be enabled prior to starting execution, thus providing
early tracing.

This saves the user from manually toggling event states through the monitor...
9a82b6a5 09/01/2011 12:34 pm Lluís

trace: [stderr] add support for dynamically enabling/disabling events

Uses the generic interface provided in "trace/control.h" in order to provide
a programmatic interface as well as command line and monitor controls.

Signed-off-by: Fabien Chouteau <>...
e4858974 09/01/2011 12:34 pm Lluís

trace: avoid conditional code compilation during option parsing

A default implementation for backend-specific routines is provided in
"trace/default.c", which backends can override by setting "trace_default=no" in
"configure".

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <>