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diff --git a/mailinglist/output_launchpad/1583421 b/mailinglist/output_launchpad/1583421 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5856e705 --- /dev/null +++ b/mailinglist/output_launchpad/1583421 @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Please provide an option to print the default hardware configuration as command-line options, to make -nodefaults easier to use + +For full customization of the default set of hardware qemu supports, a user can pass -nodefaults and then manually specify each device they want. Many specific options document what they translate to in terms of the full configuration model; however, the defaults for any given platform don't. + +I'd love to have documentation of the default hardware configuration, in terms of qemu command-line options, to make it easy to run qemu -nodefaults, paste in the default command-line, and edit it. + +As this varies by emulated machine, perhaps qemu could have a command-line option to print a specific machine (e.g. pc-i440fx-2.5) in the form of qemu command-line options? + +I think that just plain configuration in the manual could be enough. +The command line option is a very good idea, indeed. +Maybe also a monitor command could be helpful. + +It's also necessary to document default hardware configuration of each past release, because using defaults becomes a problem to keep guest OS licenses when upgrading Qemu version. + + +This is an automated cleanup. This bug report has been moved to QEMU's +new bug tracker on gitlab.com and thus gets marked as 'expired' now. +Please continue with the discussion here: + + https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/120 + + |