Re: [PATCH 06/25] qemu: Add basic framework for 'microvm' machine type

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On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 06:35:46 -0800, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 05:36:08PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > @@ -4157,6 +4158,14 @@ qemuDomainDefAddDefaultDevices(virQEMUDriver *driver,
> >      switch (def->os.arch) {
> >      case VIR_ARCH_I686:
> >      case VIR_ARCH_X86_64:
> > +        /* don't add anything for microvm */
> > +        if (qemuDomainIsMicrovm(def)) {
> > +            /* explicitly add 'none' USB controller */
> > +            usbModel = VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_MODEL_USB_NONE;
> > +            addDefaultUSB = true;
> > +            break;
> > +        }
> 
> I'm not terribly keen on seeing support for microvm officially
> introduced in libvirt.
> 
> AFAIK nobody ever asked for it, and given that the intended use case
> for the machine type is specifically to have incredibly minimal, fast
> booting VMs, to the extent where trimmed out kernels and even custom
> firmware implementations are employed to shave every last possible
> microsecond off the boot time, I really don't expect that anyone
> would ever consider using libvirt to manage them.
> 
> In other words, I think we should just keep pretending they don't
> exist and save a bit of code/complexity.

I sure can do that. My motivation for doing this was to cover explicitly
every case (machine type) where qemu does honour '-usb'. 'microvm' is
one of them (if ACPI is enabled) and it adds a MMIO mapped USB
controller.

Regardless of whether this patch gets applied the USB controller will
be removed from there as we don't really support the platform-internal
USB controllers for ARM boards either.
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