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| author | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2021-02-25 11:55:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2021-02-25 15:41:50 +0100 |
| commit | b979c93121d4276c124dccbff2848b7aede66cb6 (patch) | |
| tree | 7890a6fb132ab295a75429872d3830ba0e9639fb /docs/system/deprecated.rst | |
| parent | 06e878b413766778a53be3d25c0373a23679d039 (diff) | |
vl: deprecate -writeconfig
The functionality of -writeconfig is limited and the code
does not even try to detect cases where it prints incorrect
syntax (for example if values have a quote in them, since
qemu_config_parse does not support any kind of escaping)
so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/system/deprecated.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/system/deprecated.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst index 2fcac7861e..561c916da2 100644 --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst @@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ library enabled as a cryptography provider. Neither the ``nettle`` library, or the built-in cryptography provider are supported on FIPS enabled hosts. +``-writeconfig`` (since 6.0) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The ``-writeconfig`` option is not able to serialize the entire contents +of the QEMU command line. It is thus considered a failed experiment +and deprecated, with no current replacement. + QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands ------------------------------------ |