On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 12:05:30PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
The "-balloon" option has been replaced by "-device virtio-balloon". It's been marked as deprecated since two releases, and nobody complained, so let's remove it now.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> --- docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt | 6 +++--- qemu-deprecated.texi | 5 ----- qemu-options.hx | 10 ---------- vl.c | 36 ------------------------------------ 4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
Confirmed that this is no longer used by libvirt, as we assume we have new enough QEMU for -device Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
diff --git a/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt b/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt index 9985e1d..1732cc8 100644 --- a/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt +++ b/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt @@ -61,9 +61,9 @@ It's also important to note the following: respond to the request the timer will never be re-armed, which has the same effect as disabling polling
-Here are a few examples. QEMU is started with '-balloon virtio', which -generates '/machine/peripheral-anon/device[1]' as the QOM path for the -balloon device. +Here are a few examples. QEMU is started with '-device virtio-balloon', +which generates '/machine/peripheral-anon/device[1]' as the QOM path for +the balloon device.
We should try to get in the habit of changing the docs at the time we deprecate stuff. I keep forgetting todo this myself too :-) Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|