Re: [PATCH 1/5] S390: Override QEMU_CAPS_NO_ACPI for s390x

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On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 09:50:25AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 21.06.2012 18:15, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
> > 
> > Starting a KVM guest on s390 fails immediately. This is because
> > "qemu --help" reports -no-acpi even for the s390(x) architecture but
> > -no-acpi isn't supported there.
> > Workaround is to remove QEMU_CAPS_NO_ACPI from the capability set
> > after the version/capability extraction.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c |    5 +++++
> >  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
> > index 4308833..0c01cb0 100644
> > --- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
> > +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
> > @@ -1511,6 +1511,11 @@ int qemuCapsExtractVersionInfo(const char *qemu, const char *arch,
> >          qemuCapsSet(flags, QEMU_CAPS_PCI_MULTIBUS);
> >      }
> >  
> > +    /* S390 and probably other archs do not support no-acpi -
> > +       maybe the qemu option parsing should be re-thought. */
> > +    if (STREQLEN(arch, "s390x", 5))
> > +        qemuCapsClear(flags, QEMU_CAPS_NO_ACPI);
> > +
> >      /* qemuCapsExtractDeviceStr will only set additional flags if qemu
> >       * understands the 0.13.0+ notion of "-device driver,".  */
> >      if (qemuCapsGet(flags, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE) &&
> > 
> 
> I don't think this is the right approach. I mean, if qemu's broken
> shouldn't it be fixed?

In principal I agree with you, but this aspect of QEMU is not likely
to be changed in the forseeable future, not least because QEMU don't
like us using -help in the first place.

So, ACK to this patch on that basis

Daniel
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