Re: [Qemu-devel] For all targets and machine types: "start to monitor" smoke test

[Peter Maydell]

On 8 August 2012 08:50, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> writes:
>> The string should be suitable for inserting into -help.
>
> Sufficiently common cases can also be delegated to generic code:
>
> * Maximum number of CPUs
>
>   Got that: QEMUMachine member max_cpus, main() enforces it.
>
> * Require -kernel
>
>   Have a flag in QEMUMachine, enforce in main().
>
> * Require certain drives
>
>   Have QEMUMachine declare minimum and maximum number drives of each
>   BlockInterfaceType?

I'm not entirely sure what the aim here is? Allow some automated test
program to programmatically determine required arguments for a
smoke test? Make machines consistent about how they inform the
user about required arguments etc? Let us print this info in --help?
Something else?

-- PMM