On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 12:46 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 08/10/2009 12:19 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > > > Or we could drop this kvm snapshot numbering system and just use qemu > > VERSION numbering - i.e. qemu-kvm-devel-88 could have been published as > > qemu-kvm-0.10.50 > > > > Yeah. You still couldn't distinguish among different snapshots. 0.10.51, 0.10.52 etc. > >> How about adding 'qemu -describe-features' which will output, one line > >> per feature, what's supported (and limits where applicable)? I > >> understand libvirt already does this for some features using -help; this > >> is simply a formalization of that hack. > >> > > > > Yes, libvirt would much rather not parse -help or use version numbers to > > detect whether features are available. > > > > We should revisit the "info capabilities" thing again: > > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-11/msg00767.html > > > > Logically it needs to work before starting a VM, so a command line > option is more appropriate. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-11/msg00899.html Cheers, Mark. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
