Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add option to disable FDC from ISA bus and ACPI on i386

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 09/01/2014 09:46, Markus Armbruster ha scritto:
>>> >> Add i386 command line option "-no-fdc", which allows guests to omit the
>>> >> configuration of a floppy controller. Applies on top of my previous patch
>>> >> titled "Add DSDT node for AppleSMC"
>> >
>> > I think we need to provide a mechanism for machine-specific options.
>> > Options like this one does not scale.
> -machine?  It already has many keys that really apply to only a few
> machines.  Sticking in one more won't kill us.

Yeah, -machine would work as a short-term solution.  I was thinking of
making -machine set properties on the QOM /machine object.  Then you can
add properties to that object, and they will show up in -machine
automagically.

Paolo

> It sure would be nice if -machine accepted exactly the keys that
> actually work.