On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 01:54:17PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > And what are the rules that govern device exclusion from -nodefaults
> > list? Why -nodefaults does not create empty machine?
>
> "qemu -nodefaults" should give you just cpu + northbridge + southbridge.
>
On modern machine this is everything that most will ever have.
> "qemu" should give you a usable virtual machine, so qemu adds some
> optional devices which are (or used to be) standard in a pc: floppy,
> cdrom, serial port, parallel port, vga card, nic.
>
> Sometimes things are a bit odd for historical reasons:
>
> USB controllers are only present in case you ask for them via '-usb' or
> add them via '-device', even though they are part of the southbridge.
>
> vmport is there unconditionally. And I'd rather make that one
> configurable instead of adding more hard-coded devices.
>
There are more, as I already said hotplug device (I am to lazy to search
for more, so I always bring this one).
--
Gleb.
