+ snprintf (buf, sizeof buf, "%d", g->memsize);
+ add_cmdline (g, "-m");
+ add_cmdline (g, buf);
+
+ add_cmdline (g, "-no-reboot"); /* Force exit instead of reboot on panic */
+ add_cmdline (g, "-nographic");
+ add_cmdline (g, "-serial");
+ add_cmdline (g, "stdio");
+
+ /* These options recommended by KVM developers to improve reliability. */
+ if (qemu_supports (g, "-no-hpet"))
+ add_cmdline (g, "-no-hpet");
+
+ if (qemu_supports (g, "-rtc-td-hack"))
+ add_cmdline (g, "-rtc-td-hack");
+
+ if (qemu_supports (g, "-chardev") && qemu_supports (g, "guestfwd")) {
+ /* New-style -net user,guestfwd=... syntax for guestfwd. See:
+ *
+ * http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=c92ef6a22d3c71538fcc48fb61ad353f7ba03b62
+ *
+ * The original suggested format doesn't work, see:
+ *
+ * http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-07/msg01654.html
+ *
+ * However Gerd Hoffman privately suggested to me using -chardev
+ * instead, which does work.
+ */
+ snprintf (buf, sizeof buf,
+ "socket,id=guestfsvmc,path=%s,server,nowait", unixsock);
+
+ add_cmdline (g, "-chardev");
+ add_cmdline (g, buf);
+
+ snprintf (buf, sizeof buf,
+ "user,vlan=0,net=10.0.2.0/8,"
+ "guestfwd=tcp:%s:%d-chardev:guestfsvmc",
+ GUESTFWD_ADDR, GUESTFWD_PORT);
+
+ add_cmdline (g, "-net");
+ add_cmdline (g, buf);
+ } else {
+ /* Not guestfwd. HOPEFULLY this qemu uses the older -net channel
+ * syntax, or if not then we'll get a quick failure.
+ */
+ snprintf (buf, sizeof buf,
+ "channel,%d:unix:%s,server,nowait", GUESTFWD_PORT, unixsock);
+
+ add_cmdline (g, "-net");
+ add_cmdline (g, buf);
+ add_cmdline (g, "-net");
+ add_cmdline (g, "user,vlan=0,net=10.0.2.0/8");
+ }
+ add_cmdline (g, "-net");
+ add_cmdline (g, "nic,model=" NET_IF ",vlan=0");
+
+#define LINUX_CMDLINE \
+ "panic=1 " /* force kernel to panic if daemon exits */ \
+ "console=ttyS0 " /* serial console */ \
+ "udevtimeout=300 " /* good for very slow systems (RHBZ#480319) */ \
+ "noapic " /* workaround for RHBZ#502058 - ok if not SMP */ \
+ "acpi=off " /* we don't need ACPI, turn it off */ \
+ "cgroup_disable=memory " /* saves us about 5 MB of RAM */