Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v2 00/17] Drop support for QEMU < 0.12.0

A v2 of this series: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-November/msg00165.html The patches for introducing virtlogd will be significantly simplified if we don't need to worry about parsing stderr during startup. This is required prior to QEMU 0.11 so that we can get the dyanamically allocated /dev/pty/NNN paths. The QEMU 0.12.1 release was shipped in RHEL-6 vintage distros and is already quite old, so seems like a fair target version to aim for as the minimum required. By dropping support for anything older than QEMU 0.12.0 we can remove the code for parsing stderr. The QEMU 0.12.0 release was quite special because it was the release where QEMU switched what I call its "modern" approach to configuration via -device. A major part of the complexity of the QEMU command line generator is due to need to support non-device syntax, so by mandating QEMU 0.12.0 we'll be able to kill off alot of conditional code. This series makes a start by assuming existance of 5 features, -vnc, 'info chardev', -no-reboot, -drive and -name, but there are a tonne more we can assume. This series drops 20 QEMU_CAPS_* flags, but there are still another ~15-20 that can be dropped, now we assume 0.12.0 or better. Changed in v2: - Fixed misc coverity reports from John - Rebased to use test .args files with new line wrapping for clarity - Split out some fixes into separate patches - Dropped a bunch more capabilities Daniel P. Berrange (17): qemu: mandate QEMU version 0.12.0 or newer qemu: remove all support for kQEMU qemu: assume -vnc arg always takes a ':' qemu: assume 'info chardev' is always available qemu: assume -no-reboot is always available qemu: handle USB bus in qemuAssignDeviceDiskAliasFixed() qemu: handle floppy disk bus when parsing command line argv qemu: assume -drive argument is always available qemu: assume -name is always available qemu: assume -uuid is always available qemu: really remove last traces of Xenner support qemu: assume vnet-hdr feature is always available qemu: assume support for all migration protocols except rdma qemu: assume -drive cache always uses v2 option names qemu: assume -drive format is always available qemu: assume -vga is always available qemu: assume various QEMU 0.10 features are always available