This is a virt-xml option to refresh a VM to use the latest machine
type version for the machine type it's currently using. Ex:
pseries-2.11 -> pseries
pc-q35-5.0 -> q35
This is useful for when qemu deprecates and removes the machine type
out from under you, or to pick up bug fixes.
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
We are about to change the some defaults around os handling. Let's
start recommending the nicer named --osinfo more, since new error
messages are going to promote it a bit as well
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
The canonical tool for this is `osinfo-query os`, which we still
reference in the man pages and in the list output.
However, we are about to make missing --os-variant fatal for common
usage, and I don't want to force users to install an extra tool just
to figure out what an acceptable --os-variant value is.
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
This includes support for the following suboptions:
* name (<shmem name=X>)
* role (<shmem role=X>)
* model.type (<shmem><model type=X/>)
* size (<shmem><size>X)
* size.unit (<shmem><size unit=X/>)
* server.path (<shmem><server path=X/>)
* msi.vectors (<shmem><msi vectors=X/>)
* msi.ioeventfd (<shmem><msi ioeventfd=X/>)
This adds the following --os-variant suboptions
* name=, short-id=
* id=
* detect=on|off
Functionally this does not change behavior, just adds explicit
sub options for behavior we already support
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
The --os-variant option naming is pretty crappy and mostly a historical
artifact. Ideally this would be named just `--os` but I'm afraid that
would cause confusion with libvirt's <os> XML
Add --osinfo as an alternate commandline naming. If we ever want to
transition documented use of --os-variant it will help to have the
alternative around for a few releases
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Cole Robinson