On 05/12/10 22:29, Cole Robinson wrote: > Commit f75ca1ae205f24dae296c82d534c37746f87232f changed the version > string from: > > QEMU PC Emulator version x.yy.z > > to > > QEMU Emulator version x.yy.z > > libvirt is overly sensitive to the format of this string, and barfs when > trying to parse qemu -help output. While libvirt should certainly be more > robust here, changing the output format of -version for cosmetic reasons > doesn't seem like the best idea, so let's revert the change and add a > comment explaining the issue.
Rather than this, I would prefer a -version argument that just returns the current QEMU version string. IMHO it's not a good approach to do static string matching. Cheers, Jes
