On 03/26/2012 04:08 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
If I see something like -nodefconfig, I assume it will create a bare bones guest that will not depend on any qemu defaults and will be stable across releases.
That's not even close to what -nodefconfig is. That's pretty much what -nodefaults is but -nodefaults has also had a fluid definition historically.
Okay. Let's just make sure to document -nodefconfig as version specific and -nodefaults as the stable way to create a bare bones guest (and define exactly what that means).
Agreed. But I do want to point out, that -nodefaults has not been stable and since it doesn't universally create a bare bones guest, it's not clear that it will be. I think what we want to move toward is a -no-machine option which allows a user to explicitly build a machine from scratch. That is: qemu -no-machine -device i440fx,id=host -device isa-serial,chr=chr0 ... Regards, Anthony Liguori