Some distros (see diff) chose to backport QMP support rather than rebase to newer version of qemu. As a hack they added the string 'libvirt' to the qemu -help output. Remove this as downstream-only hacks should be carried by downstream and not litter upstream. This effectively reverts commit ff88cd590572277f10ecee4ebb1174d9b70fc0d7 --- src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 20 ++++---------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c index 7bfb71420..085910dd4 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c @@ -1335,8 +1335,7 @@ virQEMUCapsComputeCmdFlags(const char *help, if ((netdev = strstr(help, "-netdev"))) { /* Disable -netdev on 0.12 since although it exists, * the corresponding netdev_add/remove monitor commands - * do not, and we need them to be able to do hotplug. - * But see below about RHEL build. */ + * do not, and we need them to be able to do hotplug. */ if (version >= 13000) { if (strstr(netdev, "bridge")) virQEMUCapsSet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_NETDEV_BRIDGE); @@ -1369,20 +1368,10 @@ virQEMUCapsComputeCmdFlags(const char *help, /* While JSON mode was available in 0.12.0, it was too * incomplete to contemplate using. The 0.13.0 release * is good enough to use, even though it lacks one or - * two features. This is also true of versions of qemu - * built for RHEL, labeled 0.12.1, but with extra text - * in the help output that mentions that features were - * backported for libvirt. The benefits of JSON mode now - * outweigh the downside. - */ + * two features. */ #if WITH_YAJL - if (version >= 13000) { - virQEMUCapsSet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_MONITOR_JSON); - } else if (version >= 12000 && - strstr(help, "libvirt")) { + if (version >= 13000) virQEMUCapsSet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_MONITOR_JSON); - virQEMUCapsSet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_NETDEV); - } #else /* Starting with qemu 0.15 and newer, upstream qemu no longer * promises to keep the human interface stable, but requests that @@ -1392,8 +1381,7 @@ virQEMUCapsComputeCmdFlags(const char *help, * telling them to recompile (the spec file includes the * dependency, so distros won't hit this). This check is * also in m4/virt-yajl.m4 (see $with_yajl). */ - if (version >= 15000 || - (version >= 12000 && strstr(help, "libvirt"))) { + if (version >= 15000) { if (check_yajl) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", _("this qemu binary requires libvirt to be " -- 2.13.5