Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] configure: option to disable host block devices

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 08:06:55PM -0700, Joelle van Dyne wrote:
> Some hosts (iOS) have a sandboxed filesystem and do not provide low-level
> APIs for interfacing with host block devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joelle van Dyne <j@getutm.app>
> ---
>  configure          | 4 ++++
>  meson.build        | 1 +
>  block/file-posix.c | 8 +++++++-
>  3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

A change along these lines is needed in qapi/block-core.json:

  { 'enum': 'BlockdevDriver',
    ...
    { 'name': 'host_device', 'if': 'defined(CONFIG_HOST_BLOCK_DEVICE)' }

That way the QAPI schema reflects the QEMU binary's actual features.

> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 71bbe82ac5..4e68a5fefe 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -448,6 +448,7 @@ ninja=""
>  skip_meson=no
>  gettext=""
>  mirror_jit="no"
> +host_block_device_support="yes"
>  
>  bogus_os="no"
>  malloc_trim="auto"
> @@ -5901,6 +5902,9 @@ if test "$default_devices" = "yes" ; then
>  else
>    echo "CONFIG_MINIKCONF_MODE=--allnoconfig" >> $config_host_mak
>  fi
> +if test "$host_block_device_support" = "yes" ; then
> +  echo "CONFIG_HOST_BLOCK_DEVICE=y" >> $config_host_mak
> +fi
>  if test "$debug_tcg" = "yes" ; then
>    echo "CONFIG_DEBUG_TCG=y" >> $config_host_mak
>  fi

How do you disable CONFIG_HOST_BLOCK_DEVICE? There is no ./configure
--disable-host-block-device option.

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