On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 03:02:38PM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 13:41:13 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> The intel-iommu device has existed since QEMU 2.2.0, but
> it was only possible to create it with -device since
> QEMU 2.7.0, thanks to:
>
> commit 621d983a1f9051f4cfc3f402569b46b77d8449fc
> Author: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel(a)redhat.com>
> Date: Mon Jun 27 18:38:34 2016 +0300
>
> hw/iommu: enable iommu with -device
>
> Use the standard '-device intel-iommu' to create the IOMMU device.
> The legacy '-machine,iommu=on' can still be used.
>
> The libvirt capability check & command line formatting code
> is thus broken for all QEMU versions 2.2.0 -> 2.6.0 inclusive.
>
> This fixes it to use iommu=on instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com>
> ---
Is there any value to make it work with older versions rather than just
clearing it completely on the versions that don't support it with
-device?
I had one question as well. Are those invocations migration-compatible?
I can't try it right now, so I figured asking would be faster than
preparing two machines with different QEMU versions =) If they are not,
then I would just say clear it.
Martin