On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:54:10 +0100
Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Il 21/11/2013 03:38, Igor Mammedov ha scritto:
> > +
> > + /* verify properties correctnes and initialize backend */
> > + bc = MEMORY_BACKEND_GET_CLASS(obj);
> > + if (bc->get_memory) {
> > + HostMemoryBackend *backend = MEMORY_BACKEND(obj);
> > + if (!bc->get_memory(backend, &local_err)) {
> > + goto out;
> > + }
> > + }
>
> So this is why you need a new command-line option.
>
> I think we need a generic mechanism for post-initialization of whatever
> is given on the command line. Perhaps you can do that with an
> interface, and get rid of -memdev and memdev_add altogether?
>
> MemoryBackend's implementation of the interface's sole method would call
> get_memory, of course.
What I would use instead of memdev_add in CLI/HMP/QMP?
Could you explain it a bit more, please?
> Paolo
>
> > + /* make backend available to the world via QOM tree */
> > + object_property_add_child(container_get(qemu_get_backend(), "/memdev"),
> > + qemu_opts_id(opts), obj, &local_err);
>
