On 8 August 2012 08:50, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> writes: >> The string should be suitable for inserting into -help. > > Sufficiently common cases can also be delegated to generic code: > > * Maximum number of CPUs > > Got that: QEMUMachine member max_cpus, main() enforces it. > > * Require -kernel > > Have a flag in QEMUMachine, enforce in main(). > > * Require certain drives > > Have QEMUMachine declare minimum and maximum number drives of each > BlockInterfaceType?
I'm not entirely sure what the aim here is? Allow some automated test program to programmatically determine required arguments for a smoke test? Make machines consistent about how they inform the user about required arguments etc? Let us print this info in --help? Something else? -- PMM