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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2011-07-19 19:55:24 +0100
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2011-07-19 19:55:24 +0100
commitd82438431c1551610eb7d9945fa76d6387534582 (patch)
treeb4b5875fab36acdf674b21c4dfe82df60cf81eff
parenta6f99dd9326c2da66f6b7e49d94901fffdddd6ea (diff)
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build: Fix virtio-serial test for qemu 0.15.
Now qemu 0.15 won't even start up unless the -machine accel=... option is specified. Essentially this is a regression in qemu.
-rw-r--r--configure.ac25
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ae50e76b..456ed4d7 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -310,8 +310,31 @@ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([QEMU],["$QEMU"],[Location of qemu binary.])
dnl Check that the chosen qemu has virtio-serial support.
if test "x$vmchannel_test" != "xno"; then
+ AC_MSG_CHECKING([that $QEMU -help works])
+ if $QEMU -help > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+ AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
+ else
+ AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
+ AC_MSG_FAILURE(
+[$QEMU -help: command failed.
+
+This could be a very old version of qemu, or qemu might not be
+working.
+])
+ fi
+
+ # qemu since 0.15 requires the -machine accel=tcg option, otherwise
+ # it won't start up. QEMU DEVELOPERS, PLEASE ADD CAPABILITIES TESTING.
+ AC_MSG_CHECKING([if this qemu has the -machine accel=tcg option])
+ if $QEMU -help 2>&1 | grep -sq -- '-machine.*accel.*tcg'; then
+ qemu_machine_accel_tcg="-machine accel=tcg"
+ AC_MSG_RESULT([$qemu_machine_accel_tcg])
+ else
+ AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
+ fi
+
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for virtio-serial support in $QEMU])
- if $QEMU -nographic -device \? 2>&1 | grep -sq virtio-serial; then
+ if $QEMU $qemu_machine_accel_tcg -nographic -device \? 2>&1 | grep -sq virtio-serial; then
AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
else
AC_MSG_RESULT([no])