It's no longer used anywhere beside main(),
so make it local variable that is used for CLI compat
purposes to keep -mem-path option working.
Under hood QEMU will use it to create
memory-backend-file,mem-path=...
backend and use its MemoryRegion as main RAM.
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
---
CC: pbonzini@redhat.com
CC: jitendra.kolhe@hpe.com
CC: ehabkost@redhat.com
---
include/sysemu/sysemu.h | 1 -
vl.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/sysemu/sysemu.h b/include/sysemu/sysemu.h
index 80c57fd..8de9065 100644
--- a/include/sysemu/sysemu.h
+++ b/include/sysemu/sysemu.h
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ extern uint8_t *boot_splash_filedata;
extern bool enable_mlock;
extern bool enable_cpu_pm;
extern QEMUClockType rtc_clock;
-extern const char *mem_path;
extern int mem_prealloc;
#define MAX_OPTION_ROMS 16
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 4ce0799..7f12666 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ enum vga_retrace_method vga_retrace_method = VGA_RETRACE_DUMB;
int display_opengl;
const char* keyboard_layout = NULL;
ram_addr_t ram_size;
-const char *mem_path = NULL;
int mem_prealloc = 0; /* force preallocation of physical target memory */
bool enable_mlock = false;
bool enable_cpu_pm = false;
@@ -2917,6 +2916,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
Error *err = NULL;
bool list_data_dirs = false;
char *dir, **dirs;
+ const char *mem_path = NULL;
BlockdevOptionsQueue bdo_queue = QSIMPLEQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER(bdo_queue);
QemuPluginList plugin_list = QTAILQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER(plugin_list);
--
2.7.4