On 12/2/25 08:14, Thomas Huth wrote:
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.
Yes, its status as a synonym of -machine started only in 2015, in a
commit that didn't even mention that effect:
commit 364c3e6b8dd7912e01d19122d791b8c8f6df4f6c
Author: Marcel Apfelbaum <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Jan 7 14:11:38 2015 +0200
vl.c: fix regression when reading machine type from config file
After 'Machine as QOM' series the machine type input triggers
the creation of the machine class.
If the machine type is set in the configuration file, the machine
class is not updated accordingly and remains the default.
Fixed that by querying the machine options after the configuration
file is loaded.
Cc: [email protected]
Reported-by: William Dauchy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
(I wonder who's the guy that committed it). But it was a good idea, and
there's no need to change this.
Paolo
