On 02/12/2025 01.57, [email protected] wrote:
From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <[email protected]>
The -M option was deprecated by -machine in 2011 by 80f52a669
and isn't actually documented in the manpage, but is still used in
one of the examples. Replace it by -machine.
-M still gets used all over the place in other docs, and I'm
not sure I realised it was deprecated until Julian pointed out it
wasn't actually documented.
-M is not mentioned in docs/about/deprecated.rst, so no, it's not officially
deprecated. And I think it's a nice short hand feature for an option that is
used very often, so I also don't think that we should ever remove it. Thus I
think it would be better to simply add it back to qemu-options.hx instead.
Thomas
