The synth fsdriver never got used for anything else but the QTest
testcase for VirtIO 9P. And even there, QTest uses -fsdev synth and
-device virtio-9p-... directly.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
the new format, the ``-audiodev-help'' option can be used to convert
the current values of the environment variables to ``-audiodev'' options.
+@subsection -virtfs_synth (since 4.1)
+
+The ``-virtfs_synth'' argument is now deprecated. Please use ``-fsdev synth''
+and ``-device virtio-9p-...'' instead.
+
@section QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands
@subsection block-dirty-bitmap-add "autoload" parameter (since 2.12.0)
STEXI
@item -virtfs_synth
@findex -virtfs_synth
-Create synthetic file system image
+Create synthetic file system image. Note that this option is now deprecated.
+Please use @code{-fsdev synth} and @code{-device virtio-9p-...} instead.
ETEXI
DEF("iscsi", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_iscsi,
QemuOpts *fsdev;
QemuOpts *device;
+ warn_report("'-virtfs_synth' is deprecated, please use "
+ "'-fsdev synth' and '-device virtio-9p-...' "
+ "instead");
+
fsdev = qemu_opts_create(qemu_find_opts("fsdev"), "v_synth",
1, NULL);
if (!fsdev) {