Monthly archive for 2017/8

Deprecation of old parameters and features

10 Aug 2017 — by Thomas Huth

QEMU has a lot of interfaces (like command line options or HMP commands) and old features (like certain devices) which are considered as deprecated since other more generic or better interfaces/features have been established instead. While the QEMU developers are generally trying to keep each QEMU release compatible with the previous ones, the old legacy sometimes gets into the way when developing new code and/or causes quite some burden of maintaining it.

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