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| author | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2018-02-28 06:38:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2018-03-06 14:01:29 +0100 |
| commit | 4060e671c33679198d777558bf7c3750610e0f3d (patch) | |
| tree | cb349f42618360f70f8b8bd7a333db36c4ef2c6a /qemu-options.hx | |
| parent | eb1fe944a89457981407f5335f11bae104a32e57 (diff) | |
balloon: Fix documentation of the --balloon parameter and deprecate it
There are two issues with the documentation of the --balloon parameter:
First, "--balloon none" is simply doing nothing. Even if a machine had a
balloon device by default, this option is not disabling anything, it is
simply ignored. Thus let's simply drop this option from the documentation
to avoid to confuse the users (but keep the code in vl.c for backward
compatibility).
Second, the documentation claims that "--balloon virtio" is the default
mode, but this is not true anymore since commit 382f074371f7dc32a34.
Since that commit, the option also has no real use case anymore, since
you can simply use "--device virtio-balloon" nowadays instead. Thus to
simplify our complex parameter zoo a little bit, let's deprecate the
the parameter now and tell the user to use "--device virtio-balloon"
instead.
Fixes: 382f074371f7dc32a34c944c845b1698e83d8c36
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1519796303-13257-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-options.hx')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 11 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index 2a22a62f74..6585058c6c 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -462,16 +462,13 @@ modprobe i810_audio clocking=48000 ETEXI DEF("balloon", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_balloon, - "-balloon none disable balloon device\n" "-balloon virtio[,addr=str]\n" - " enable virtio balloon device (default)\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) + " enable virtio balloon device (deprecated)\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) STEXI -@item -balloon none -@findex -balloon -Disable balloon device. @item -balloon virtio[,addr=@var{addr}] -Enable virtio balloon device (default), optionally with PCI address -@var{addr}. +@findex -balloon +Enable virtio balloon device, optionally with PCI address @var{addr}. This +option is deprecated, use @option{--device virtio-balloon} instead. ETEXI DEF("device", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_device, |