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authorKashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>2018-10-30 13:35:24 +0100
committerEduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>2018-12-11 15:45:22 -0200
commit3800db787f9874c57e7e9d2a47b31eda0efc1a32 (patch)
treeffa72d3967fc7c1bc10accbf60791a20af94e9cf /qemu-deprecated.texi
parentade7e258cc9d3c4afb9f6c22d1df6c97cb20453e (diff)
Deprecate QMP `cpu-add`
The intended functionality of QMP `cpu-add` is replaced with `device_add` (and `query-hotpluggable-cpus`). So let's deprecate `cpu-add`. A complete example of vCPU hotplug with the recommended way (using `device_add`) is provided as part of a seperate docs patch. Suggested-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20181030123526.26415-2-kchamart@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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@@ -121,6 +121,11 @@ replaced by the ``target'' output member.
The @option{[hub_id name]} parameter tuple of the 'hostfwd_add' and
'hostfwd_remove' HMP commands has been replaced by @option{netdev_id}.
+@subsection cpu-add (since 3.1)
+
+Use ``device_add'' for hotplugging vCPUs instead of ``cpu-add''. See
+documentation of ``query-hotpluggable-cpus'' for additional details.
+
@section System emulator devices
@subsection ivshmem (since 2.6.0)