xref: /openbmc/qemu/meson_options.txt (revision e76f201f)
1# These options do not correspond to a --enable/--disable-* option
2# on the configure script command line.  If you add more, list them in
3# scripts/meson-buildoptions.py's SKIP_OPTIONS constant too.
4
5option('qemu_suffix', type : 'string', value: 'qemu',
6       description: 'Suffix for QEMU data/modules/config directories (can be empty)')
7option('docdir', type : 'string', value : 'share/doc',
8       description: 'Base directory for documentation installation (can be empty)')
9option('qemu_firmwarepath', type : 'array', value : ['share/qemu-firmware'],
10       description: 'search PATH for firmware files')
11option('pkgversion', type : 'string', value : '',
12       description: 'use specified string as sub-version of the package')
13option('smbd', type : 'string', value : '',
14       description: 'Path to smbd for slirp networking')
15option('iasl', type : 'string', value : '',
16       description: 'Path to ACPI disassembler')
17option('tls_priority', type : 'string', value : 'NORMAL',
18       description: 'Default TLS protocol/cipher priority string')
19option('default_devices', type : 'boolean', value : true,
20       description: 'Include a default selection of devices in emulators')
21option('audio_drv_list', type: 'array', value: ['default'],
22       choices: ['alsa', 'coreaudio', 'default', 'dsound', 'jack', 'oss', 'pa', 'pipewire', 'sdl', 'sndio'],
23       description: 'Set audio driver list')
24option('block_drv_rw_whitelist', type : 'string', value : '',
25       description: 'set block driver read-write whitelist (by default affects only QEMU, not tools like qemu-img)')
26option('block_drv_ro_whitelist', type : 'string', value : '',
27       description: 'set block driver read-only whitelist (by default affects only QEMU, not tools like qemu-img)')
28option('interp_prefix', type : 'string', value : '/usr/gnemul/qemu-%M',
29       description: 'where to find shared libraries etc., use %M for cpu name')
30option('fuzzing_engine', type : 'string', value : '',
31       description: 'fuzzing engine library for OSS-Fuzz')
32option('trace_file', type: 'string', value: 'trace',
33       description: 'Trace file prefix for simple backend')
34option('coroutine_backend', type: 'combo',
35       choices: ['ucontext', 'sigaltstack', 'windows', 'auto'],
36       value: 'auto', description: 'coroutine backend to use')
37
38# Everything else can be set via --enable/--disable-* option
39# on the configure script command line.  After adding an option
40# here make sure to run "make update-buildoptions".
41
42option('docs', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
43       description: 'Documentations build support')
44option('fuzzing', type : 'boolean', value: false,
45       description: 'build fuzzing targets')
46option('gettext', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
47       description: 'Localization of the GTK+ user interface')
48option('modules', type : 'feature', value : 'disabled',
49       description: 'modules support (non Windows)')
50option('module_upgrades', type : 'boolean', value : false,
51       description: 'try to load modules from alternate paths for upgrades')
52option('install_blobs', type : 'boolean', value : true,
53       description: 'install provided firmware blobs')
54option('sparse', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
55       description: 'sparse checker')
56option('guest_agent', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
57       description: 'Build QEMU Guest Agent')
58option('guest_agent_msi', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
59       description: 'Build MSI package for the QEMU Guest Agent')
60option('tools', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
61       description: 'build support utilities that come with QEMU')
62option('qga_vss', type : 'feature', value: 'auto',
63       description: 'build QGA VSS support (broken with MinGW)')
64
65option('malloc_trim', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
66       description: 'enable libc malloc_trim() for memory optimization')
67option('malloc', type : 'combo', choices : ['system', 'tcmalloc', 'jemalloc'],
68       value: 'system', description: 'choose memory allocator to use')
69
70option('kvm', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
71       description: 'KVM acceleration support')
72option('hax', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
73       description: 'HAX acceleration support')
74option('whpx', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
75       description: 'WHPX acceleration support')
76option('hvf', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
77       description: 'HVF acceleration support')
78option('nvmm', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
79       description: 'NVMM acceleration support')
80option('xen', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
81       description: 'Xen backend support')
82option('xen_pci_passthrough', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
83       description: 'Xen PCI passthrough support')
84option('tcg', type: 'feature', value: 'enabled',
85       description: 'TCG support')
86option('tcg_interpreter', type: 'boolean', value: false,
87       description: 'TCG with bytecode interpreter (slow)')
88option('safe_stack', type: 'boolean', value: false,
89       description: 'SafeStack Stack Smash Protection (requires clang/llvm and coroutine backend ucontext)')
90option('sanitizers', type: 'boolean', value: false,
91       description: 'enable default sanitizers')
92option('tsan', type: 'boolean', value: false,
93       description: 'enable thread sanitizer')
94option('stack_protector', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
95       description: 'compiler-provided stack protection')
96option('cfi', type: 'boolean', value: false,
97       description: 'Control-Flow Integrity (CFI)')
98option('cfi_debug', type: 'boolean', value: false,
99       description: 'Verbose errors in case of CFI violation')
100option('multiprocess', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
101       description: 'Out of process device emulation support')
102option('vfio_user_server', type: 'feature', value: 'disabled',
103       description: 'vfio-user server support')
104option('dbus_display', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
105       description: '-display dbus support')
106option('tpm', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
107       description: 'TPM support')
108
109# Do not enable it by default even for Mingw32, because it doesn't
110# work on Wine.
111option('membarrier', type: 'feature', value: 'disabled',
112       description: 'membarrier system call (for Linux 4.14+ or Windows')
113
114option('avx2', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
115       description: 'AVX2 optimizations')
116option('avx512f', type: 'feature', value: 'disabled',
117       description: 'AVX512F optimizations')
118option('avx512bw', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
119       description: 'AVX512BW optimizations')
120option('keyring', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
121       description: 'Linux keyring support')
122
123option('attr', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
124       description: 'attr/xattr support')
125option('auth_pam', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
126       description: 'PAM access control')
127option('brlapi', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
128       description: 'brlapi character device driver')
129option('bzip2', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
130       description: 'bzip2 support for DMG images')
131option('cap_ng', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
132       description: 'cap_ng support')
133option('blkio', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
134       description: 'libblkio block device driver')
135option('bpf', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
136        description: 'eBPF support')
137option('cocoa', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
138       description: 'Cocoa user interface (macOS only)')
139option('curl', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
140       description: 'CURL block device driver')
141option('gio', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
142       description: 'use libgio for D-Bus support')
143option('glusterfs', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
144       description: 'Glusterfs block device driver')
145option('libdw', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
146       description: 'debuginfo support')
147option('libiscsi', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
148       description: 'libiscsi userspace initiator')
149option('libnfs', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
150       description: 'libnfs block device driver')
151option('mpath', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
152       description: 'Multipath persistent reservation passthrough')
153option('numa', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
154       description: 'libnuma support')
155option('iconv', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
156       description: 'Font glyph conversion support')
157option('curses', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
158       description: 'curses UI')
159option('gnutls', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
160       description: 'GNUTLS cryptography support')
161option('nettle', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
162       description: 'nettle cryptography support')
163option('gcrypt', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
164       description: 'libgcrypt cryptography support')
165option('crypto_afalg', type : 'feature', value : 'disabled',
166       description: 'Linux AF_ALG crypto backend driver')
167option('libdaxctl', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
168       description: 'libdaxctl support')
169option('libpmem', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
170       description: 'libpmem support')
171option('libssh', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
172       description: 'ssh block device support')
173option('libudev', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
174       description: 'Use libudev to enumerate host devices')
175option('libusb', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
176       description: 'libusb support for USB passthrough')
177option('linux_aio', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
178       description: 'Linux AIO support')
179option('linux_io_uring', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
180       description: 'Linux io_uring support')
181option('lzfse', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
182       description: 'lzfse support for DMG images')
183option('lzo', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
184       description: 'lzo compression support')
185option('rbd', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
186       description: 'Ceph block device driver')
187option('opengl', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
188       description: 'OpenGL support')
189option('rdma', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
190       description: 'Enable RDMA-based migration')
191option('pvrdma', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
192       description: 'Enable PVRDMA support')
193option('gtk', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
194       description: 'GTK+ user interface')
195option('sdl', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
196       description: 'SDL user interface')
197option('sdl_image', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
198       description: 'SDL Image support for icons')
199option('seccomp', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
200       description: 'seccomp support')
201option('smartcard', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
202       description: 'CA smartcard emulation support')
203option('snappy', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
204       description: 'snappy compression support')
205option('spice', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
206       description: 'Spice server support')
207option('spice_protocol', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
208       description: 'Spice protocol support')
209option('u2f', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
210       description: 'U2F emulation support')
211option('canokey', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
212       description: 'CanoKey support')
213option('usb_redir', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
214       description: 'libusbredir support')
215option('l2tpv3', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
216       description: 'l2tpv3 network backend support')
217option('netmap', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
218       description: 'netmap network backend support')
219option('slirp', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
220       description: 'libslirp user mode network backend support')
221option('vde', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
222       description: 'vde network backend support')
223option('vmnet', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
224       description: 'vmnet.framework network backend support')
225option('virglrenderer', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
226       description: 'virgl rendering support')
227option('png', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
228       description: 'PNG support with libpng')
229option('vnc', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
230       description: 'VNC server')
231option('vnc_jpeg', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
232       description: 'JPEG lossy compression for VNC server')
233option('vnc_sasl', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
234       description: 'SASL authentication for VNC server')
235option('vte', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
236       description: 'vte support for the gtk UI')
237
238# GTK Clipboard implementation is disabled by default, since it may cause hangs
239# of the guest VCPUs. See gitlab issue 1150:
240# https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1150
241
242option('gtk_clipboard', type: 'feature', value : 'disabled',
243       description: 'clipboard support for the gtk UI (EXPERIMENTAL, MAY HANG)')
244option('xkbcommon', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
245       description: 'xkbcommon support')
246option('zstd', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
247       description: 'zstd compression support')
248option('fuse', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
249       description: 'FUSE block device export')
250option('fuse_lseek', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
251       description: 'SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA support for FUSE exports')
252
253option('trace_backends', type: 'array', value: ['log'],
254       choices: ['dtrace', 'ftrace', 'log', 'nop', 'simple', 'syslog', 'ust'],
255       description: 'Set available tracing backends')
256
257option('alsa', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
258       description: 'ALSA sound support')
259option('coreaudio', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
260       description: 'CoreAudio sound support')
261option('dsound', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
262       description: 'DirectSound sound support')
263option('jack', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
264       description: 'JACK sound support')
265option('oss', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
266       description: 'OSS sound support')
267option('pa', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
268       description: 'PulseAudio sound support')
269option('pipewire', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
270       description: 'PipeWire sound support')
271option('sndio', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
272       description: 'sndio sound support')
273
274option('vhost_kernel', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
275       description: 'vhost kernel backend support')
276option('vhost_net', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
277       description: 'vhost-net kernel acceleration support')
278option('vhost_user', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
279       description: 'vhost-user backend support')
280option('vhost_crypto', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
281       description: 'vhost-user crypto backend support')
282option('vhost_vdpa', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
283       description: 'vhost-vdpa kernel backend support')
284option('vhost_user_blk_server', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
285       description: 'build vhost-user-blk server')
286option('virtfs', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
287       description: 'virtio-9p support')
288option('virtfs_proxy_helper', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
289       description: 'virtio-9p proxy helper support')
290option('libvduse', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
291       description: 'build VDUSE Library')
292option('vduse_blk_export', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
293       description: 'VDUSE block export support')
294
295option('capstone', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
296       description: 'Whether and how to find the capstone library')
297option('fdt', type: 'combo', value: 'auto',
298       choices: ['disabled', 'enabled', 'auto', 'system', 'internal'],
299       description: 'Whether and how to find the libfdt library')
300
301option('selinux', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
302       description: 'SELinux support in qemu-nbd')
303option('live_block_migration', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
304       description: 'block migration in the main migration stream')
305option('replication', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
306       description: 'replication support')
307option('colo_proxy', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
308       description: 'colo-proxy support')
309option('bochs', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
310       description: 'bochs image format support')
311option('cloop', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
312       description: 'cloop image format support')
313option('dmg', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
314       description: 'dmg image format support')
315option('qcow1', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
316       description: 'qcow1 image format support')
317option('vdi', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
318       description: 'vdi image format support')
319option('vhdx', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
320       description: 'vhdx image format support')
321option('vmdk', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
322       description: 'vmdk image format support')
323option('vpc', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
324       description: 'vpc image format support')
325option('vvfat', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
326       description: 'vvfat image format support')
327option('qed', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
328       description: 'qed image format support')
329option('parallels', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
330       description: 'parallels image format support')
331option('block_drv_whitelist_in_tools', type: 'boolean', value: false,
332       description: 'use block whitelist also in tools instead of only QEMU')
333option('rng_none', type: 'boolean', value: false,
334       description: 'dummy RNG, avoid using /dev/(u)random and getrandom()')
335option('coroutine_pool', type: 'boolean', value: true,
336       description: 'coroutine freelist (better performance)')
337option('debug_graph_lock', type: 'boolean', value: false,
338       description: 'graph lock debugging support')
339option('debug_mutex', type: 'boolean', value: false,
340       description: 'mutex debugging support')
341option('debug_stack_usage', type: 'boolean', value: false,
342       description: 'measure coroutine stack usage')
343option('qom_cast_debug', type: 'boolean', value: true,
344       description: 'cast debugging support')
345option('gprof', type: 'boolean', value: false,
346       description: 'QEMU profiling with gprof',
347       deprecated: true)
348option('slirp_smbd', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
349       description: 'use smbd (at path --smbd=*) in slirp networking')
350
351option('hexagon_idef_parser', type : 'boolean', value : true,
352       description: 'use idef-parser to automatically generate TCG code for the Hexagon frontend')
353