ivshmem: Rename property memdev to x-memdev for 2.5

The device's guest interface and its QEMU user interface are
flawed^Whotly debated.  We'll resolve that in the next development
cycle, probably by deprecating the device in favour of a cleaned up,
but not quite compatible revision.

To avoid adding more baggage to the soon-to-be-deprecated interface,
mark property "memdev" as experimental, by renaming it to "x-memdev".
It's the only recent user interface change.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1448384789-14830-6-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
[Update of qemu-doc.texi squashed in]
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
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Markus Armbruster committed 2015-11-25 10:24:27 +01:00
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@@ -1300,7 +1300,7 @@ a memory backend that has hugepage support:
@example
qemu-system-i386 -object memory-backend-file,size=1G,mem-path=/mnt/hugepages/my-shmem-file,id=mb1
-device ivshmem,memdev=mb1
-device ivshmem,x-memdev=mb1
@end example
ivshmem-server also supports hugepages mount points with the