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