Since 2.9 it is possible for a user to care only about nodes and qdev devices,
but not about BlockBackends, by defining with -blockdev and using their node
name in -device. Devices create an anonymous BlockBackend internally then.
One of the major problems in this setup is that such devices are not listed in
query-block or HMP 'info block' because the BBs are not monitor-owned. A recent
discussion concluded that we really want to replace query-block and friends
with something that matches QEMU's internals better, but there's no way to do
that in 2.10 (and I wouldn't bet on it to be completed for 2.11). So for now,
just make the devices appear in query-block and add the qdev ID there in order
to make the devices identifiable (they have 'device': '' because the BB is
anonymous).
With the additional qdev field, it turned out that with empty drives, ide-cd
and scsi-cd weren't even properly attached to the BlockBackend. If you do it
right, this even results in crashes. (Floppy already gets it right, in case you
wondered.)
After this series, -device drive=<node-name> should be reasonably usable
without a major loss of functionality like before.
Kevin Wolf (9):
block: Make blk_get_attached_dev_id() public
block/qapi: Add qdev device name to query-block
block: Make blk_all_next() public
block/qapi: Use blk_all_next() for query-block
block: List anonymous device BBs in query-block
ide: bdrv_attach_dev() for empty CD-ROM
scsi-disk: bdrv_attach_dev() for empty CD-ROM
qemu-iotests: Test 'info block'
qemu-iotests: Test unplug of -device without drive
block/block-backend.c | 5 +-
block/qapi.c | 20 +-
hmp.c | 11 +-
hw/ide/qdev.c | 3 +
hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c | 5 +
include/sysemu/block-backend.h | 2 +
qapi/block-core.json | 5 +-
tests/qemu-iotests/067 | 13 ++
tests/qemu-iotests/067.out | 40 ++++
tests/qemu-iotests/186 | 147 +++++++++++++
tests/qemu-iotests/186.out | 489 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tests/qemu-iotests/group | 1 +
12 files changed, 731 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
create mode 100755 tests/qemu-iotests/186
create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/186.out
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