block: Add bdrv_get_request_alignment()

[mirror_qemu.git] / qemu-deprecated.texi

diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
index 9cc20b365c58fad09e62c67336f2122e9e890d2f..221938676915557596e898590dec0324dfc2495f 100644 (file)
--- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
+++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
@@ -37,27 +37,6 @@ would automatically enable USB support on the machine type.
 If using the new syntax, USB support must be explicitly
 enabled via the ``-machine usb=on'' argument.
 
 If using the new syntax, USB support must be explicitly
 enabled via the ``-machine usb=on'' argument.
 

-@subsection -no-frame (since 2.12.0)
-
-The @code{--no-frame} argument works with SDL 1.2 only. The other user
-interfaces never implemented this in the first place. So this will be
-removed together with SDL 1.2 support.
-
-@subsection -virtioconsole (since 3.0.0)
-
-Option @option{-virtioconsole} has been replaced by
-@option{-device virtconsole}.
-
-@subsection -clock (since 3.0.0)
-
-The @code{-clock} option is ignored since QEMU version 1.7.0. There is no
-replacement since it is not needed anymore.
-
-@subsection -enable-hax (since 3.0.0)
-
-The @option{-enable-hax} option has been replaced by @option{-accel hax}.
-Both options have been introduced in QEMU version 2.9.0.
-

 @subsection -drive file=json:@{...@{'driver':'file'@}@} (since 3.0)
 
 The 'file' driver for drives is no longer appropriate for character or host
 @subsection -drive file=json:@{...@{'driver':'file'@}@} (since 3.0)
 
 The 'file' driver for drives is no longer appropriate for character or host


@@ -81,6 +60,18 @@ Support for invalid topologies will be removed, the user must ensure
 topologies described with -smp include all possible cpus, i.e.
   @math{@var{sockets} * @var{cores} * @var{threads} = @var{maxcpus}}.
 
 topologies described with -smp include all possible cpus, i.e.
   @math{@var{sockets} * @var{cores} * @var{threads} = @var{maxcpus}}.
 

+@subsection -vnc acl (since 4.0.0)
+
+The @code{acl} option to the @code{-vnc} argument has been replaced
+by the @code{tls-authz} and @code{sasl-authz} options.
+
+@subsection QEMU_AUDIO_ environment variables and -audio-help (since 4.0)
+
+The ``-audiodev'' argument is now the preferred way to specify audio
+backend settings instead of environment variables.  To ease migration to
+the new format, the ``-audiodev-help'' option can be used to convert
+the current values of the environment variables to ``-audiodev'' options.
+

 @section QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands
 
 @subsection block-dirty-bitmap-add "autoload" parameter (since 2.12.0)
 @section QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands
 
 @subsection block-dirty-bitmap-add "autoload" parameter (since 2.12.0)


@@ -88,6 +79,12 @@ topologies described with -smp include all possible cpus, i.e.
 "autoload" parameter is now ignored. All bitmaps are automatically loaded
 from qcow2 images.
 
 "autoload" parameter is now ignored. All bitmaps are automatically loaded
 from qcow2 images.
 

+@subsection query-block result field dirty-bitmaps[i].status (since 4.0)
+
+The ``status'' field of the ``BlockDirtyInfo'' structure, returned by
+the query-block command is deprecated. Two new boolean fields,
+``recording'' and ``busy'' effectively replace it.
+

 @subsection query-cpus (since 2.12.0)
 
 The ``query-cpus'' command is replaced by the ``query-cpus-fast'' command.
 @subsection query-cpus (since 2.12.0)
 
 The ``query-cpus'' command is replaced by the ``query-cpus-fast'' command.


@@ -103,6 +100,11 @@ Use ``device_add'' for hotplugging vCPUs instead of ``cpu-add''.  See
 documentation of ``query-hotpluggable-cpus'' for additional
 details.
 
 documentation of ``query-hotpluggable-cpus'' for additional
 details.
 

+@subsection query-events (since 4.0)
+
+The ``query-events'' command has been superseded by the more powerful
+and accurate ``query-qmp-schema'' command.
+

 @section Human Monitor Protocol (HMP) commands
 
 @subsection The hub_id parameter of 'hostfwd_add' / 'hostfwd_remove' (since 3.1)
 @section Human Monitor Protocol (HMP) commands
 
 @subsection The hub_id parameter of 'hostfwd_add' / 'hostfwd_remove' (since 3.1)


@@ -115,6 +117,12 @@ The @option{[hub_id name]} parameter tuple of the 'hostfwd_add' and
 Use ``device_add'' for hotplugging vCPUs instead of ``cpu-add''.  See
 documentation of ``query-hotpluggable-cpus'' for additional details.
 
 Use ``device_add'' for hotplugging vCPUs instead of ``cpu-add''.  See
 documentation of ``query-hotpluggable-cpus'' for additional details.
 

+@subsection acl_show, acl_reset, acl_policy, acl_add, acl_remove (since 4.0.0)
+
+The ``acl_show'', ``acl_reset'', ``acl_policy'', ``acl_add'', and
+``acl_remove'' commands are deprecated with no replacement. Authorization
+for VNC should be performed using the pluggable QAuthZ objects.
+

 @section System emulator devices
 
 @subsection bluetooth (since 3.1)
 @section System emulator devices
 
 @subsection bluetooth (since 3.1)


@@ -160,3 +168,36 @@ Example of legacy encoding:
 The above, converted to the current supported format:
 
 @code{json:@{"file.driver":"rbd", "file.pool":"rbd", "file.image":"name"@}}
 The above, converted to the current supported format:
 
 @code{json:@{"file.driver":"rbd", "file.pool":"rbd", "file.image":"name"@}}

+
+@section Related binaries
+
+@subsection qemu-nbd --partition (since 4.0.0)
+
+The ``qemu-nbd --partition $digit'' code (also spelled @option{-P})
+can only handle MBR partitions, and has never correctly handled
+logical partitions beyond partition 5.  If you know the offset and
+length of the partition (perhaps by using @code{sfdisk} within the
+guest), you can achieve the effect of exporting just that subset of
+the disk by use of the @option{--image-opts} option with a raw
+blockdev using the @code{offset} and @code{size} parameters layered on
+top of any other existing blockdev. For example, if partition 1 is
+100MiB long starting at 1MiB, the old command:
+
+@code{qemu-nbd -t -P 1 -f qcow2 file.qcow2}
+
+can be rewritten as:
+
+@code{qemu-nbd -t --image-opts driver=raw,offset=1M,size=100M,file.driver=qcow2,file.backing.driver=file,file.backing.filename=file.qcow2}
+
+Alternatively, the @code{nbdkit} project provides a more powerful
+partition filter on top of its nbd plugin, which can be used to select
+an arbitrary MBR or GPT partition on top of any other full-image NBD
+export.  Using this to rewrite the above example results in:
+
+@code{qemu-nbd -t -k /tmp/sock -f qcow2 file.qcow2 &}
+@code{nbdkit -f --filter=partition nbd socket=/tmp/sock partition=1}
+
+Note that if you are exposing the export via /dev/nbd0, it is easier
+to just export the entire image and then mount only /dev/nbd0p1 than
+it is to reinvoke @command{qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0} limited to just a
+subset of the image.