On Mon, Jul 18 2022, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 14/07/2022 17.07, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu help: >> Available CPUs: >> x86 486 (alias configured by machine type) (deprecated: >> use at least 'Nehalem' / 'Opteron_G4', or 'host' / 'max') >> >> I wonder if this is too verbose, and we should just do a >> concise flag like approach, similar to QMP: >> >> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu help: >> Available CPUs: >> x86 486 (alias configured by machine type) (deprecated) >> >> leaving the full message to be displayed at runtime ? I'm slightly >> inclined to the simpler more concise output. > > I'd prefer to keep it short here and just write "deprecated" without the > reason. Otherwise this will overflow the lines and break the readability of > the output. And it's also what we're also doing for "-machine", e.g.: > > $ ./qemu-system-ppc64 -M help | grep deprecate > taihu taihu (deprecated) > $ ./qemu-system-ppc64 -M taihu > qemu-system-ppc64: warning: Machine type 'taihu' is deprecated: incomplete, > use 'ref405ep' instead
Ok, following what -machine does is certainly a good point. Is it easy enough the figure out the deprecation note? I think you either have to actually start something with the deprecated entity, or use qmp (which is not that straightforward)?
