On 01/03/21 17:03, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 09:05:24AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
The functionality of -writeconfig is limited and the code
does not even try to detect cases where it prints incorrect
syntax (for example if values have a quote in them, since
qemu_config_parse does not support any kind of escaping)
so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
---
docs/system/deprecated.rst | 7 +++++++
qemu-options.hx | 7 +------
softmmu/vl.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
[...]
Hi,
Sorry, I'm coming very late[1] to the discussion. Will there be a
replacement for '-readconfig'?
-readconfig is not being deprecated, there will be some code new to
integrate it with the changes I'm planning to option parsing.
Paolo
I agree with Gerd's comment[2] in the last year's thread (I missed to
notice at that time) about '-readconfig' being useful. I'm familiar
with least one hosting provider who uses[3] '-readconfig'. And I've
also used it for small snippets myself. I understand, these simple
use-cases doesn't make it right to keep it. :-)
I'm not saying "don't deprecate '-readconfig'", but just noting its
usefulness, even in its current form. So I'm just curious if there's
be a suggested replacement. Even if it means: "use libvirt; or use your
own bespoke scripts".
[1] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-05/msg03681.html
"proposal: deprecate -readconfig/-writeconfig"
[2] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-05/msg03681.html
[3]
https://github.com/flyingcircusio/fc.qemu/blob/f789e57f605969a0/src/fc/qemu/agent.py#L1153
