Bug 1100579

Summary: [RFE] qemu-ga should have a config file
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jiri Belka <jbelka>
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Marc-Andre Lureau <marcandre.lureau>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 6.5CC: chayang, juzhang, michen, mkenneth, qzhang, rbalakri, rpacheco, virt-maint
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Last Closed: 2015-12-01 14:56:02 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Jiri Belka 2014-05-23 07:00:40 UTC
Description of problem:
qemu-ga --help
...snip...
  -b, --blacklist   comma-separated list of RPCs to disable (no spaces, "?"
                    to list available RPCs)
qemu-ga -b?
guest-sync-delimited
guest-sync
guest-ping
guest-get-time
guest-set-time
guest-info
guest-shutdown
guest-file-open
guest-file-close
guest-file-read
guest-file-write
guest-file-seek
guest-file-flush
guest-fsfreeze-status
guest-fsfreeze-freeze
guest-fsfreeze-thaw
guest-fstrim
guest-suspend-disk
guest-suspend-ram
guest-suspend-hybrid
guest-network-get-interfaces
guest-get-vcpus
guest-set-vcpus

Because many blacklist values this is hell to put it directly on cmdline. qemu-ga should have feature to read a config file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.8.x86_64

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Comment 2 Jiri Belka 2014-05-23 08:47:57 UTC
I meant real config file, not something like /etc/sysconfig/qemu-ga which would be sources into a RC script ;)

Comment 3 Marc-Andre Lureau 2015-07-03 10:06:08 UTC
upstream series:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-07/msg00139.html

Comment 5 Marc-Andre Lureau 2015-12-01 14:56:02 UTC
I don't think this is important enough feature to land in rhel6. I'll close as wontfix. Feel free to reopen if you disagree.