Hi QEMU/Libvirt list, When I worked on query-command-line-options, I first used some marcos [1] to generate two config & option tables. This will cover all the options, but it returns a string, it's difficult for libvirt to parse and use it.
Finally I got a suggestion to read info from new interface (QemuOpts), We add opts info to vm_config_groups[], query-command-line-options will visit the array. It doesn't conver all the options, but the latest options are covered, so this implementation is acceptable. Problem: * QemuOpts was designed just for options with parameter, some new option without parameters is lost in query output (eg: -enable-fips) * block drive uses three QemuOpts, it's legacy issue. * QemuOpts of some options aren't updated, it might be difficult to updated when we add some new parameters * other We discussed to reimplement this command, but it seems DEF maroc is the only point to cover all the options, all the options are described in qemu-options.hx I'm considering to reuse the DEF marocs to generate a table, try to return the crude info if QemuOpts doesn't cover it. Or maintain a split array (like vm_config_groups[]), it only contains the option without parameter (option name & help info). If you touched some problem of the query-command-line-options, welcome to reply it, I will try to satisfy your requests. Thanks, Amos [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-January/msg01656.html |#elif defined(QEMU_OPTIONS_GENERATE_CONFIG) | |#define DEF(option, opt_arg, opt_enum, opt_help, arch_mask) \ | opt_help, | |#define DEFHEADING(text) |#define ARCHHEADING(text, arch_mask) | |#elif defined(QEMU_OPTIONS_GENERATE_NAME) | |#define DEF(option, opt_arg, opt_enum, opt_help, arch_mask) \ | option, | |#define DEFHEADING(text) |#define ARCHHEADING(text, arch_mask) char const *optionstr[] = { #define QEMU_OPTIONS_GENERATE_NAME #include "qemu-options-wrapper.h" }; char const *configstr[] = { #define QEMU_OPTIONS_GENERATE_CONFIG #include "qemu-options-wrapper.h" }; -- Amos.
