vl: add -object option to create QOM objects from the command line

This will create a new QOM object in the '/objects' path.  Note that properties
are set in order which allows for simple objects to be initialized entirely
with this option and then realized.

This option is roughly equivalent to -device but for things that are not
devices.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/qemu-config.c b/qemu-config.c
index 3154cac10f..10d1ba4176 100644
--- a/qemu-config.c
+++ b/qemu-config.c
@@ -682,6 +682,15 @@ static QemuOptsList qemu_add_fd_opts = {
     },
 };
 
+static QemuOptsList qemu_object_opts = {
+    .name = "object",
+    .implied_opt_name = "qom-type",
+    .head = QTAILQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER(qemu_object_opts.head),
+    .desc = {
+        { }
+    },
+};
+
 static QemuOptsList *vm_config_groups[32] = {
     &qemu_drive_opts,
     &qemu_chardev_opts,
@@ -699,6 +708,7 @@ static QemuOptsList *vm_config_groups[32] = {
     &qemu_iscsi_opts,
     &qemu_sandbox_opts,
     &qemu_add_fd_opts,
+    &qemu_object_opts,
     NULL,
 };