Commit 0f66998 added the command line option -enable-fips for qemu 1.2; but as of at least qemu 1.6, the 'query-command-line-options' QMP monitor command does not report it. This is particularly annoying since the command line option is conditional - it is present in Linux builds but absent in BSD builds. Does anyone know of any other QMP method for querying if this command line option is supported? Or am I just relegated to trying it and seeing if the option gets rejected?
[I'm personally of the opinion that libvirt should use -enable-fips 100% of the time; I don't really see what it is buying us to have an option that can be enabled but not disabled, and where enabling it has no impact except when running in FIPS mode; especially when the other libraries in use on the system already honor FIPS mode without any extra command line option. But I'm not going to be the one to argue for a change in behavior other than the mere detection of the option.] -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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