Re: [Bug 1923663] [NEW] Can't(?) disable default floppy drive any more in qemu 6.0

[Markus Armbruster]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 08:07, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>> In my opinion, management applications are better off with -nodefaults.
>> It's easier to understand than the complicated mess I'm going to
>> describe under "Long answer" below.
>
> Is there a mechanism to get QEMU to tell me "what are all the
> long options I need to specify explicitly now to get the same
> behaviour that I had before I started passing -nodefaults" ?

Sadly, no.

> Otherwise it's a pretty painful route to suggest that people
> go down (though I agree that for a management app as opposed to
> an individual user it's probably a worthwhile route in the long
> term).

I don't think it's *that* bad.  The stuff -nodefaults suppresses is
geared for ad hoc human use, and I figure management applications
override much of it anyway.