On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 11:11:29AM -0500, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > > Add global command line option to disable default devices. > > > > > > Should -readconfig imply this? > > > > Hmm, not sure. Why do you think this would be useful? > > Here is my thinking: if you used -writeconfig, your machine description > is (at least in theory) entirely included in the config file including > (again in theory) the default devices. So, if the machine description > has no parallel port, QEMU should not create a default one when you load > it with -readconfig.
Shouldn't -writeconfig just add '-nodefaults' to the config it generates ? That way if someone instead creates a configfile by hand, copying in their existing QEMU args they still get default devices which matches behaviour of their existing CLI args. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|
