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* qemu-nbd: Deprecate qemu-nbd --partitionEric Blake2019-02-041-0/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The existing qemu-nbd --partition code claims to handle logical partitions up to 8, since its introduction in 2008 (commit 7a5ca86). However, the implementation is bogus (actual MBR logical partitions form a sort of linked list, with one partition per extended table entry, rather than four logical partitions in a single extended table), making the code unlikely to work for anything beyond -P5 on actual guest images. What's more, the code does not support GPT partitions, which are becoming more popular, and maintaining device subsetting in both NBD and the raw device is unnecessary duplication of effort (even if it is not too difficult). Note that obtaining the offsets of a partition (MBR or GPT) can be learned by using 'qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 file.qcow2 && sfdisk --dump /dev/nbd0', but by the time you've done that, you might as well just mount /dev/nbd0p1 that the kernel creates for you instead of bothering with qemu exporting a subset. Or, keeping to just user-space code, use nbdkit's partition filter, which has already known both GPT and primary MBR partitions for a while, and was just recently enhanced to support arbitrary logical MBR parititions. Start the clock on the deprecation cycle, with examples of how to accomplish device subsetting without using -P. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20190125234837.2272-1-eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
* spapr/vio: remove the "irq" property"Cédric Le Goater2019-02-041-6/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | commit efe2add7cb7f ("spapr/vio: deprecate the "irq" property") was merged in QEMU version 3.0. The "irq" property" can be removed for QEMU version 4.0. Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
* ui: remove support for SDL1.2 in favour of SDL2Daniel P. Berrangé2019-02-011-9/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SDL1.2 was deprecated in the 2.12.0 release with: commit e52c6ba34149b4f39c3fd60e59ee32b809db2bfa Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Date: Mon Jan 15 14:25:33 2018 +0000 ui: deprecate use of SDL 1.2 in favour of 2.0 series The SDL 2.0 release was made in Aug, 2013: https://www.libsdl.org/release/ That will soon be 4 + 1/2 years ago, which is enough time to consider the 2.0 series widely supported. Thus we deprecate the SDL 1.2 support, which will allow us to delete it in the last release of 2018. By this time, SDL 2.0 will be more than 5 years old. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Message-id: 20180115142533.24585-1-berrange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> It is thus able to be removed in the 3.1.0 release. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180822131554.3398-4-berrange@redhat.com> [ kraxel: rebase ] Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
* hw/misc/ivshmem: Remove deprecated "ivshmem" legacy deviceThomas Huth2019-01-151-5/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's been marked as deprecated in QEMU v2.6.0 already, so really nobody should use the legacy "ivshmem" device anymore (but use ivshmem-plain or ivshmem-doorbell instead). Time to remove the deprecated device now. Belatedly also update a mention of the deprecated "ivshmem" in the file docs/specs/ivshmem-spec.txt to "ivshmem-doorbell". Missed in commit 5400c02b90b ("ivshmem: Split ivshmem-plain, ivshmem-doorbell off ivshmem"). Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
* Mention that QMP 'cpu-add' will be deprecatedKashyap Chamarthy2019-01-101-0/+6
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20181213124224.31585-4-kchamart@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
* Update that HMP 'cpu-add' is deprecated in 4.0Kashyap Chamarthy2019-01-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20181213124224.31585-3-kchamart@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> [ehabkost: revert back to 'cpu-add' spelling] Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
* qemu-deprecated.texi: Rename the HMP sectionKashyap Chamarthy2019-01-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | So that it is consistent with the naming of QMP's Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20181213124224.31585-2-kchamart@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
* hw/i386: Remove deprecated machines pc-0.10 and pc-0.11Thomas Huth2018-12-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | They've been deprecated for two releases and nobody complained that they are still required anymore, so it's time to remove these now. And while we're at it, mark the other remaining old 0.x machine types as deprecated (since they can not properly be used for live-migration anyway). Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
* 9p: remove support for the "handle" backendGreg Kurz2018-12-121-8/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "handle" fsdev backend was deprecated in QEMU 2.12.0 with: commit db3b3c7281ca82e2647e072a1f97db111313dd73 Author: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> Date: Mon Jan 8 11:18:23 2018 +0100 9pfs: deprecate handle backend This backend raise some concerns: - doesn't support symlinks - fails +100 tests in the PJD POSIX file system test suite [1] - requires the QEMU process to run with the CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH capability, which isn't recommended for security reasons This backend should not be used and wil be removed. The 'local' backend is the recommended alternative. [1] https://www.tuxera.com/community/posix-test-suite/ Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> It has passed the two release cooling period without any complaint. Remove it now. Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
* Deprecate QMP `cpu-add`Kashyap Chamarthy2018-12-111-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The intended functionality of QMP `cpu-add` is replaced with `device_add` (and `query-hotpluggable-cpus`). So let's deprecate `cpu-add`. A complete example of vCPU hotplug with the recommended way (using `device_add`) is provided as part of a seperate docs patch. Suggested-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20181030123526.26415-2-kchamart@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
* bt: Mark the bluetooth subsystem as deprecatedThomas Huth2018-11-121-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It has been unmaintained since years, and there were only trivial or tree-wide changes to the related files since many years, so the code is likely very bitrotten and broken. For example the following segfaults as soon as as you press a key: qemu-system-x86_64 -usb -device usb-bt-dongle -bt hci -bt device:keyboard Since we are not aware of anybody using bluetooth with the current version of QEMU, let's mark the subsystem as deprecated, with a special request for the users to write to the qemu-devel mailing list in case they still use it (so we could revert the deprecation status in that case). Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-id: 1542016830-19189-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
* vl.c deprecate incorrect CPUs topologyIgor Mammedov2018-10-241-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -smp [cpus],sockets/cores/threads[,maxcpus] should describe topology so that total number of logical CPUs [sockets * cores * threads] would be equal to [maxcpus], however historically we didn't have such check in QEMU and it is possible to start VM with an invalid topology. Deprecate invalid options combination so we can make sure that the topology VM started with is always correct in the future. Users with an invalid sockets/cores/threads/maxcpus values should fix their CLI to make sure that [sockets * cores * threads] == [maxcpus] Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1536836762-273036-2-git-send-email-imammedo@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> [ehabkost: squashed unit test fix] Message-Id: <20181019215345.521d58d7@igors-macbook-pro.local> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
* ui: remove support for GTK2 in favour of GTK3Daniel P. Berrangé2018-10-121-7/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | GTK2 was deprecated in the 2.12.0 release with: commit b7715af2b31f47060cc5b4be930d16c13be93fa9 Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Date: Tue Dec 12 11:34:40 2017 +0000 ui: deprecate use of GTK 2.x in favour of 3.x series The GTK 3.0 release was made in Feb, 2011: https://blog.gtk.org/2011/02/10/gtk-3-0-released/ That will soon be 7 years ago, which is enough time to consider the 3.x series widely supported. Thus we deprecate the GTK 2.x support, which will allow us to delete it in the last release of 2018. By this time, GTK 3.x will be almost 8 years old. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Message-id: 20171212113440.16483-1-berrange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> It is thus able to be removed in the 3.1.0 release. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Message-id: 20180822131554.3398-2-berrange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
* hw/core/machine: Officially deprecate the enforce-config-section parameterThomas Huth2018-09-251-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | Commit 16f7244842b5135543ef068a1adafd94c6965953 added this parameter to the documentation, including a note that it is deprecated. But it has never been added to the "Deprecated features" appendix, which is our official way to deprecate legacy parameters. So let's do this now. Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
* net/slirp: Deprecate the [hub_id name] parameter tupleThomas Huth2018-09-251-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | The "name" in the [hub_id name] parameter tuple is the same as a "netdev_id" (which should be unique), so specifying the hub_id here is just redundant (it was likely just necessary in the past when the network subsystem was still using "vlans" only and when it did not use unique "id"s yet). Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
* net: Deprecate the "name" parameter of -netThomas Huth2018-09-251-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In early times, network backends were specified by a "vlan" and "name" tuple. With the introduction of netdevs, the "name" was replaced by an "id" (which is supposed to be unique), but the "name" parameter stayed as an alias which could be used instead of "id". Unfortunately, we miss the duplication check for "name": $ qemu-system-x86_64 -net user,name=n1 -net user,name=n1 ... starts without an error, while "id" correctly complains: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -net user,id=n1 -net user,id=n1 qemu-system-x86_64: -net user,id=n1: Duplicate ID 'n1' for net Instead of trying to fix the code for the legacy "name" parameter, let's rather get rid of this old interface and deprecate the "name" parameter now - this will also be less confusing for the users in the long run. Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
* block/rbd: add deprecation documentation for filename keyvalue pairsJeff Cody2018-09-251-0/+15
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> Message-id: 647f5b5ab7efd8bf567a504c832b1d2d6f719b23.1536704901.git.jcody@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
* Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/dgibson/tags/ppc-for-3.1-20180907' ↵Peter Maydell2018-09-241-6/+0Star
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | into staging ppc patch queue 2018-09-07 Here's another pull request for qemu-3.1. No real theme here, just an assortment of various fixes. Probably the most notable thing is the removal of the ppcemb target which has been deprecated for some time now. # gpg: Signature made Fri 07 Sep 2018 08:30:02 BST # gpg: using RSA key 6C38CACA20D9B392 # gpg: Good signature from "David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>" # gpg: aka "David Gibson (Red Hat) <dgibson@redhat.com>" # gpg: aka "David Gibson (ozlabs.org) <dgibson@ozlabs.org>" # gpg: aka "David Gibson (kernel.org) <dwg@kernel.org>" # Primary key fingerprint: 75F4 6586 AE61 A66C C44E 87DC 6C38 CACA 20D9 B392 * remotes/dgibson/tags/ppc-for-3.1-20180907: target-ppc: Extend HWCAP2 bits for ISA 3.0 target/ppc/kvm: set vcpu as online/offline Fix a deadlock case in the CPU hotplug flow spapr: Correct reference count on spapr-cpu-core mac_newworld: implement custom FWPathProvider uninorth: add ofw-addr property to allow correct fw path generation mac_oldworld: implement custom FWPathProvider grackle: set device fw_name and address for correct fw path generation macio: add addr property to macio IDE object macio: add macio bus to help with fw path generation macio: move MACIOIDEState type declarations to macio.h spapr_pci: fix potential NULL pointer dereference spapr: fix leak of rev array ppc: Remove deprecated ppcemb target Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
| * ppc: Remove deprecated ppcemb targetThomas Huth2018-08-281-6/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is no known available OS for ppc around anymore that uses page sizes below 4k, so it does not make much sense that we keep wasting our time on building and testing the ppcemb-softmmu target. It has been deprecated since two releases, and nobody complained, so let's remove this now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
* | net: Remove the deprecated -tftp, -bootp, -redir and -smb optionsThomas Huth2018-08-311-34/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These options likely do not work as expected as soon as the user tries to use more than one network interface at once. The parameters have been marked as deprecated since QEMU v2.6, so users had plenty of time to move their scripts to the new syntax. Time to remove the old parameters now. Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
* | Remove the deprecated options -startdate, -localtime and -rtc-td-hackThomas Huth2018-08-311-13/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Deprecated since two releases, nobody complained, thus it's time to remove them now. Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
* | Remove the deprecated -nodefconfig optionThomas Huth2018-08-311-4/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's the same as -no-user-config and marked as deprecated since three releases already. Time to remove it now. Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
* | Remove the deprecated -balloon optionThomas Huth2018-08-311-5/+0Star
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "-balloon" option has been replaced by "-device virtio-balloon". It's been marked as deprecated since two releases, and nobody complained, so let's remove it now. Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
* vnc: remove support for deprecated tls, x509, x509verify optionsDaniel P. Berrangé2018-08-241-20/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | The 'tls-creds' option accepts the name of a TLS credentials object. This replaced the usage of 'tls', 'x509' and 'x509verify' options in 2.5.0. These deprecated options were grandfathered in when the deprecation policy was introduded in 2.10.0, so can now finally be removed. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Message-id: 20180725092751.21767-3-berrange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
* qemu-doc: mark ppc/prep machine as deprecatedHervé Poussineau2018-08-211-0/+6
| | | | | | | | 40p machine type should be used instead. Signed-off-by: Hervé Poussineau <hpoussin@reactos.org> Acked-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
* s390x: remove 's390-squash-mcss' optionCornelia Huck2018-08-201-8/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | This option has been deprecated for two releases; remove it. Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Acked-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
* block: Remove deprecated -drive option serialKevin Wolf2018-08-151-5/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reinstates commit b0083267444a5e0f28391f6c2831a539f878d424, which was temporarily reverted for the 3.0 release so that libvirt gets some extra time to update their command lines. 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. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
* block: Remove deprecated -drive option addrKevin Wolf2018-08-151-5/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This reinstates commit eae3bd1eb7c6b105d30ec06008b3bc3dfc5f45bb, which was temporarily reverted for the 3.0 release so that libvirt gets some extra time to update their command lines. The -drive option addr was deprecated in QEMU 2.10. It's time to remove it. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
* block: Remove deprecated -drive geometry optionsKevin Wolf2018-08-151-5/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reinstates commit a7aff6dd10b16b67e8b142d0c94c5d92c3fe88f6, which was temporarily reverted for the 3.0 release so that libvirt gets some extra time to update their command lines. The -drive options cyls, heads, secs and trans were deprecated in QEMU 2.10. It's time to remove them. hd-geo-test tested both the old version with geometry options in -drive and the new one with -device. Therefore the code using -drive doesn't have to be replaced there, we just need to remove the -drive test cases. This in turn allows some simplification of the code. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
* qemu-doc: Move appendix "Deprecated features" to its own fileMarkus Armbruster2018-07-161-0/+234
Consumers of QEMU need to track feature deprecation. Keeping deprecation documentation in its own file helps in two small ways: * You can track changes the easy and obvious way, with git-log. Before, you had to resort to more complex gittery like "git-log --oneline -L '/@node Deprecated features/,/@node Supported build platforms/:qemu-doc.texi'" * It lets us use MAINTAINERS to copy interested parties on deprecation patches, so they can advise or object before they're a done deal. The next commit will do that for libvirt. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180716073226.21127-2-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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