Il 20/06/2013 13:34, Michael Tokarev ha scritto: > 20.06.2013 13:52, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> Il 20/06/2013 11:30, Igor Mammedov ha scritto: >>>>> libvirt uses the "cpus" option already, so we have to keep it working. >>> Sure, we can leave it as it's now for some time while a new interface is >>> introduced/adopted. And than later deprecate "cpus". >> >> So, you used a new name because the new behavior of "-numa >> node,cpus=1-2,cpus=3-4" would be incompatible with the old. > > BTW, as I tried to touch exactly the same place yesterday (trying > to convert it to QemuOpts) -- what does this "node" mean? > > For example, with > > -device [type=]devicetype,foo=bar,xzy=abc > > this creates a new device for each "invocation" of option. But > what does this `-numa node' mean? Can there be anything else > besides node? Why it is needed/used for?
Nothing, I think it's just that somebody took inspiration from "-device". :) > This -numa option is the last one which uses the old option > parsing mechanism (there's also some smbios-related thing > but it's simple to convert, I almost got it ready yesterday), That would be awesome. Paolo
