# These options do not correspond to a --enable/--disable-* option # on the configure script command line. If you add more, list them in # scripts/meson-buildoptions.py's SKIP_OPTIONS constant too. option('qemu_suffix', type : 'string', value: 'qemu', description: 'Suffix for QEMU data/modules/config directories (can be empty)') option('docdir', type : 'string', value : 'share/doc', description: 'Base directory for documentation installation (can be empty)') option('qemu_firmwarepath', type : 'array', value : ['share/qemu-firmware'], description: 'search PATH for firmware files') option('pkgversion', type : 'string', value : '', description: 'use specified string as sub-version of the package') option('smbd', type : 'string', value : '', description: 'Path to smbd for slirp networking') option('iasl', type : 'string', value : '', description: 'Path to ACPI disassembler') option('tls_priority', type : 'string', value : 'NORMAL', description: 'Default TLS protocol/cipher priority string') option('default_devices', type : 'boolean', value : true, description: 'Include a default selection of devices in emulators') option('audio_drv_list', type: 'array', value: ['default'], choices: ['alsa', 'coreaudio', 'default', 'dsound', 'jack', 'oss', 'pa', 'pipewire', 'sdl', 'sndio'], description: 'Set audio driver list') option('block_drv_rw_whitelist', type : 'string', value : '', description: 'set block driver read-write whitelist (by default affects only QEMU, not tools like qemu-img)') option('block_drv_ro_whitelist', type : 'string', value : '', description: 'set block driver read-only whitelist (by default affects only QEMU, not tools like qemu-img)') option('interp_prefix', type : 'string', value : '/usr/gnemul/qemu-%M', description: 'where to find shared libraries etc., use %M for cpu name') option('fuzzing_engine', type : 'string', value : '', description: 'fuzzing engine library for OSS-Fuzz') option('trace_file', type: 'string', value: 'trace', description: 'Trace file prefix for simple backend') option('coroutine_backend', type: 'combo', choices: ['ucontext', 'sigaltstack', 'windows', 'auto'], value: 'auto', description: 'coroutine backend to use') # Everything else can be set via --enable/--disable-* option # on the configure script command line. After adding an option # here make sure to run "make update-buildoptions". option('docs', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Documentations build support') option('fuzzing', type : 'boolean', value: false, description: 'build fuzzing targets') option('gettext', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Localization of the GTK+ user interface') option('modules', type : 'feature', value : 'disabled', description: 'modules support (non Windows)') option('module_upgrades', type : 'boolean', value : false, description: 'try to load modules from alternate paths for upgrades') option('install_blobs', type : 'boolean', value : true, description: 'install provided firmware blobs') option('sparse', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'sparse checker') option('guest_agent', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Build QEMU Guest Agent') option('guest_agent_msi', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Build MSI package for the QEMU Guest Agent') option('tools', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'build support utilities that come with QEMU') option('qga_vss', type : 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'build QGA VSS support (broken with MinGW)') option('malloc_trim', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'enable libc malloc_trim() for memory optimization') option('malloc', type : 'combo', choices : ['system', 'tcmalloc', 'jemalloc'], value: 'system', description: 'choose memory allocator to use') option('kvm', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'KVM acceleration support') option('whpx', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'WHPX acceleration support') option('hvf', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'HVF acceleration support') option('nvmm', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'NVMM acceleration support') option('xen', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'Xen backend support') option('xen_pci_passthrough', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'Xen PCI passthrough support') option('tcg', type: 'feature', value: 'enabled', description: 'TCG support') option('plugins', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'TCG plugins via shared library loading') option('debug_tcg', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'TCG debugging') option('debug_remap', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'syscall buffer debugging support') option('tcg_interpreter', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'TCG with bytecode interpreter (slow)') option('safe_stack', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'SafeStack Stack Smash Protection (requires clang/llvm and coroutine backend ucontext)') option('sanitizers', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'enable default sanitizers') option('tsan', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'enable thread sanitizer') option('stack_protector', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'compiler-provided stack protection') option('cfi', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'Control-Flow Integrity (CFI)') option('cfi_debug', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'Verbose errors in case of CFI violation') option('multiprocess', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'Out of process device emulation support') option('relocatable', type : 'boolean', value : true, description: 'toggle relocatable install') option('vfio_user_server', type: 'feature', value: 'disabled', description: 'vfio-user server support') option('dbus_display', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: '-display dbus support') option('tpm', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'TPM support') # Do not enable it by default even for Mingw32, because it doesn't # work on Wine. option('membarrier', type: 'feature', value: 'disabled', description: 'membarrier system call (for Linux 4.14+ or Windows') option('avx2', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'AVX2 optimizations') option('avx512f', type: 'feature', value: 'disabled', description: 'AVX512F optimizations') option('avx512bw', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'AVX512BW optimizations') option('keyring', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'Linux keyring support') option('libkeyutils', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'Linux keyutils support') option('af_xdp', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'AF_XDP network backend support') option('attr', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'attr/xattr support') option('auth_pam', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'PAM access control') option('brlapi', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'brlapi character device driver') option('bzip2', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'bzip2 support for DMG images') option('cap_ng', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'cap_ng support') option('blkio', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'libblkio block device driver') option('bpf', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'eBPF support') option('cocoa', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Cocoa user interface (macOS only)') option('curl', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'CURL block device driver') option('gio', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'use libgio for D-Bus support') option('glusterfs', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Glusterfs block device driver') option('hv_balloon', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'hv-balloon driver (requires Glib 2.68+ GTree API)') option('libdw', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'debuginfo support') option('libiscsi', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'libiscsi userspace initiator') option('libnfs', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'libnfs block device driver') option('mpath', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Multipath persistent reservation passthrough') option('numa', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'libnuma support') option('iconv', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Font glyph conversion support') option('curses', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'curses UI') option('gnutls', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'GNUTLS cryptography support') option('nettle', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'nettle cryptography support') option('gcrypt', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'libgcrypt cryptography support') option('crypto_afalg', type : 'feature', value : 'disabled', description: 'Linux AF_ALG crypto backend driver') option('libdaxctl', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'libdaxctl support') option('libpmem', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'libpmem support') option('libssh', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'ssh block device support') option('libudev', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Use libudev to enumerate host devices') option('libusb', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'libusb support for USB passthrough') option('linux_aio', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Linux AIO support') option('linux_io_uring', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Linux io_uring support') option('lzfse', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'lzfse support for DMG images') option('lzo', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'lzo compression support') option('rbd', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Ceph block device driver') option('opengl', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'OpenGL support') option('rdma', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Enable RDMA-based migration') option('gtk', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'GTK+ user interface') option('sdl', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'SDL user interface') option('sdl_image', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'SDL Image support for icons') option('seccomp', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'seccomp support') option('smartcard', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'CA smartcard emulation support') option('snappy', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'snappy compression support') option('spice', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Spice server support') option('spice_protocol', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Spice protocol support') option('u2f', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'U2F emulation support') option('canokey', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'CanoKey support') option('usb_redir', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'libusbredir support') option('l2tpv3', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'l2tpv3 network backend support') option('netmap', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'netmap network backend support') option('pixman', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'pixman support') option('slirp', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'libslirp user mode network backend support') option('vde', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'vde network backend support') option('vmnet', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'vmnet.framework network backend support') option('virglrenderer', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'virgl rendering support') option('rutabaga_gfx', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'rutabaga_gfx support') option('png', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'PNG support with libpng') option('vnc', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'VNC server') option('vnc_jpeg', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'JPEG lossy compression for VNC server') option('vnc_sasl', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'SASL authentication for VNC server') option('vte', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'vte support for the gtk UI') # GTK Clipboard implementation is disabled by default, since it may cause hangs # of the guest VCPUs. See gitlab issue 1150: # https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1150 option('gtk_clipboard', type: 'feature', value : 'disabled', description: 'clipboard support for the gtk UI (EXPERIMENTAL, MAY HANG)') option('xkbcommon', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'xkbcommon support') option('zstd', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'zstd compression support') option('fuse', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'FUSE block device export') option('fuse_lseek', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA support for FUSE exports') option('trace_backends', type: 'array', value: ['log'], choices: ['dtrace', 'ftrace', 'log', 'nop', 'simple', 'syslog', 'ust'], description: 'Set available tracing backends') option('alsa', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'ALSA sound support') option('coreaudio', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'CoreAudio sound support') option('dsound', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'DirectSound sound support') option('jack', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'JACK sound support') option('oss', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'OSS sound support') option('pa', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'PulseAudio sound support') option('pipewire', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'PipeWire sound support') option('sndio', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'sndio sound support') option('vhost_kernel', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'vhost kernel backend support') option('vhost_net', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'vhost-net kernel acceleration support') option('vhost_user', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'vhost-user backend support') option('vhost_crypto', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'vhost-user crypto backend support') option('vhost_vdpa', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'vhost-vdpa kernel backend support') option('vhost_user_blk_server', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'build vhost-user-blk server') option('virtfs', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'virtio-9p support') option('virtfs_proxy_helper', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'virtio-9p proxy helper support') option('libvduse', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'build VDUSE Library') option('vduse_blk_export', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'VDUSE block export support') option('capstone', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'Whether and how to find the capstone library') option('fdt', type: 'combo', value: 'auto', choices: ['disabled', 'enabled', 'auto', 'system', 'internal'], description: 'Whether and how to find the libfdt library') option('selinux', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'SELinux support in qemu-nbd') option('live_block_migration', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'block migration in the main migration stream') option('replication', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'replication support') option('colo_proxy', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'colo-proxy support') option('bochs', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'bochs image format support') option('cloop', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'cloop image format support') option('dmg', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'dmg image format support') option('qcow1', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'qcow1 image format support') option('vdi', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'vdi image format support') option('vhdx', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'vhdx image format support') option('vmdk', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'vmdk image format support') option('vpc', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'vpc image format support') option('vvfat', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'vvfat image format support') option('qed', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'qed image format support') option('parallels', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'parallels image format support') option('block_drv_whitelist_in_tools', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'use block whitelist also in tools instead of only QEMU') option('rng_none', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'dummy RNG, avoid using /dev/(u)random and getrandom()') option('coroutine_pool', type: 'boolean', value: true, description: 'coroutine freelist (better performance)') option('debug_graph_lock', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'graph lock debugging support') option('debug_mutex', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'mutex debugging support') option('debug_stack_usage', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'measure coroutine stack usage') option('qom_cast_debug', type: 'boolean', value: true, description: 'cast debugging support') option('slirp_smbd', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'use smbd (at path --smbd=*) in slirp networking') option('qemu_ga_manufacturer', type: 'string', value: 'QEMU', description: '"manufacturer" name for qemu-ga registry entries') option('qemu_ga_distro', type: 'string', value: 'Linux', description: 'second path element in qemu-ga registry entries') option('qemu_ga_version', type: 'string', value: '', description: 'version number for qemu-ga installer') option('hexagon_idef_parser', type : 'boolean', value : true, description: 'use idef-parser to automatically generate TCG code for the Hexagon frontend')