Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > 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?
I think each of the above would be nice to have, no more, no less.