On 12/05/2013 02:04 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > 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.]
Ping. Any thoughts at all on how to detect boolean command-line options via QMP? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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