Re: [PATCH] qemu: format serial, geometry and error policy on frontend disk device

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On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:37:07 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:29:48PM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:50:32 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> > > Currently we format the serial, geometry and error policy on the -drive
> > > backend argument.
> > > 
> > > QEMU added the ability to set serial and geometry on the frontend in
> > > the 1.2 release, and ability to set error policy in the 2.7 release.
> > > usb-storage is an oddity, however, as it lacks error policy support
> > > right now.
> > > 
> > > Setting any of these on -drive has been deprecated and support for this
> > > will be removed very soon.
> > > 
> > > Note that some disk buses (sd) still don't support -device. Although
> > > QEMU allowed these properties to be set on -drive for if=sd, they
> > > have been ignored so we don't loose anything by removing this.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > > @@ -2125,6 +2141,11 @@ qemuBuildDriveDevStr(const virDomainDef *def,
> > >      if (qemuBuildDriveDevCacheStr(disk, &opt, qemuCaps) < 0)
> > >          goto error;
> > >  
> > > +    qemuBuildDiskFrontendAttributes(disk, &opt);
> > > +    if (virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_DISK_ERROR) &&
> > > +        disk->bus != VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_BUS_USB)
> > 
> > Why is USB special here? Switching to -blockdev will require doing this
> > also for the USB disk, so I'd rather have a single case here.
> 
> We have no choice - QEMU didn't add it....
> 
> $ for i in virtio-blk ide-hd scsi-hd usb-storage ; do ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -device $i,? 2>&1  | grep werror ; done
> virtio-blk-pci.werror=BlockdevOnError (Error handling policy, report/ignore/enospc/stop/auto)
> ide-hd.werror=BlockdevOnError (Error handling policy, report/ignore/enospc/stop/auto)
> scsi-hd.werror=BlockdevOnError (Error handling policy, report/ignore/enospc/stop/auto)

Hmm, thats awesome. If they intend to support it for the usb-storage
device they should add it prior to us converting it to the new place.

That will also block enabling of -blockdev

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