[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Re: Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt

[Avi Kivity]

On 03/24/2010 02:30 PM, Paul Brook wrote:
>> On 03/23/2010 09:24 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>      
>>> We also provide an API for guest creation (the qemu command line).
>>>        
>> As an aside, I'd like to see all command line options have qmp
>> equivalents (most of them can be implemented with a 'set' command that
>> writes qdev values).  This allows a uniform way to control a guest,
>> whether at startup or runtime.  You start with a case, cold-plug a
>> motherboard, cpus, memory, disk controllers, and power it on.
>>      
> The main blocker to this is converting all the devices to qdev. "partial"
> conversions are not sufficient. It's approximately the same problem as a
> machine config file. If you have one then the other should be fairly trivial.
>    

Agreed.

> IMO the no_user flag is a bug, and should not exist.
>    

Sorry, what's that?

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