Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 0/6] qemu: Use -blockdev for pflash (blockdev-add saga)

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 04:51:46PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > To avoid using -drive as much as possible convert PFLASH to use > -blockdev as well. > > Since -blockdev is not enabled yet use the following qemu namespace XML > override to enable it for testing: > > <domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'> > ... > <qemu:capabilities> > <qemu:add capability='blockdev'/> > </qemu:capabilities> > </domain> > > Peter Krempa (6): > qemu: command: Extract formatting of -drive for pflash > qemu: domain: Store virStorageSources representing pflash backing > qemu: domain: Introduce helper to convert <loader> into > virStorageSource > qemu: command: Build -blockdev-s for backing of pflash > qemu: command: Build the 'pflash' drives via -machine > qemu: Instantiate pflash via -machine when using blockdev > > src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- > src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++ > src/qemu/qemu_domain.h | 9 +++ > src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 6 ++ > 4 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) There ought to be a file added to qemuxml2argvtest to validate the new -blockdev syntax for pflash. Maybe you have it further down in your queue of pending blockdev patches ? If not just send a followup to add a test, no need to repost this whole series.