On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 03:25:19PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 04:19:29PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > > Kevin Wolf <kwolf@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > Am 22.06.2018 um 13:38 hat Christian Borntraeger geschrieben: > > >> > > >> On 06/15/2018 04:21 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote: > > >> > The -drive option serial was deprecated in QEMU 2.10. It's time to > > >> > remove it. > > >> > > > >> > Tests need to be updated to set the serial number with -global instead > > >> > of using the -drive option. > > >> > > >> libvirt 4.5 still creates those (at least on s390x) > > >> > > >> <disk type='file' device='disk'> > > >> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none' io='native' iothread='1'/> > > >> <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/image.zhyp137'/> > > >> <target dev='hda' bus='virtio'/> > > >> <serial>skel</serial> > > >> <boot order='1'/> > > >> <address type='ccw' cssid='0xfe' ssid='0x0' devno='0x0000'/> > > >> </disk> > > >> > > >> > > >> -> > > >> [...] > > >> -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/image.zhyp137,format=qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,serial=skel,cache=none,aio=native -device virtio-blk-ccw,iothread=iothread1,scsi=off,devno=fe.0.0000,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1,write-cache=on > > >> [...] > > >> > > >> 2018-06-22T11:25:20.946024Z qemu-system-s390x: -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/image.zhyp137,format=qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,serial=skel,cache=none,aio=native: Block format 'qcow2' does not support the option 'serial' > > >> 2018-06-22 11:25:21.098+0000: shutting down, reason=failed > > >> > > >> So it seems that this breaks s390x. > > > > > > Thanks for bringing this up. libvirt should fix this before QEMU 3.0 is > > > released. > > > > > > Sadly, it also shows that deprecation warnings in log files go > > > unnoticed. > > > > Nobody reads log files until things have gone belly up, and even then > > unrelated log entries get ignored. > > > > The way to get deprecation warnings noticed it to have the management > > application fail its "make check". > > > > Perhaps we could use a more structured notification, to make detecting > > use of deprecated features programmatically trivial. A QMP event might > > do. > > Libvirt currently has CI that is largely focused on unit testing. We > recently did some work, however, to get our functional test suite > working properly again (Sys-Virt-TCK) and are trying to get some > new CI hardware. So if we get that running, we coud run tests on real > QEMU versions and check the /var/log/libvirt/qemu/$GUEST.logs to > make sure we're not triggering unexpected warnings from QEMU This could be even easier if there was a --no-deprecations flag to QEMU which triggered abort() whenever mgmt app uses a deprecated feature. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list