[libvirt] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Qemu Monitor Passthrough

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Apr 14 17:07:37 UTC 2010


On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 02:36:45PM -0400, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> Hello,
>      As we discussed on the list, here are RFC patches that allow
> both qemu monitor passthrough and the ability to specify extra
> arguments to be passed on the qemu command-line.  I've specifically
> not done the more complicated regex command-line editing for now,
> since we don't have consensus on it.
>      There are a few outstanding issues with these patches:
> 
> 1)  Should we have a separate structure for the per-driver qemuMonitorCommand
> entry point?

Or just not use driver tables at all for specific code. Declare the
function entry points in qemu_driver.h and make the  libvirt_qemu.c 
file directly reference it

> 2)  Due to the way that virsh parses command-line arguments, it's not
> possible to pass it an argument that has spaces (even if you properly
> quote it).  Therefore I have a hack in place that will convert ^ to
> space before passing it along, which is pretty crappy.  How should we go about
> fixing this?  Fix virsh argument parsing, or go about it a different way?

Sounds like fixing virsh is better - I could well imagine that other
commands could benefit from being able to use quoted strings with
embedded whitespace

Daniel
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