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d8fb7d0969d5c32b3d1b9e20b63ec6c0abe80be4 vl: switch -M parsing to keyval
Switch from QemuOpts to keyval. This enables the introduction
of non-scalar machine properties, and JSON syntax in the future.
For JSON syntax to be supported right now, we would have to
consider what would happen if string-based dictionaries (produced by
-M key=val) were to be merged with strongly-typed dictionaries
(produced by -M {'key': 123}).
The simplest way out is to never enter the situation, and only allow one
-M option when JSON syntax is in use. However, we want options such as
-smp to become syntactic sugar for -M, and this is a problem; as soon
as -smp becomes a shortcut for -M, QEMU would forbid using -M '{....}'
together with -smp. Therefore, allowing JSON syntax right now for -M
would be a forward-compatibility nightmare and it would be impossible
anyway to introduce -M incrementally in tools.
Instead, support for JSON syntax is delayed until after the main
options are converted to QOM compound properties. These include -boot,
-acpitable, -smbios, -m, -semihosting-config, -rtc and -fw_cfg. Once JSON
syntax is introduced, these options will _also_ be forbidden together
with -M '{...}'.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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