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

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/25/2010 10:16 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:14:24PM +0000, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
>    
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:07:20PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>      
>>> I agree apps shouldn't use it for RPC, but admins using the interactive user
>>> monitor are just as deserving of stable commands&  args.
>>>        
>> I think, once QMP is completely there, admins would be better using a qemu-cmd
>> that's just serialise it's command line arguments into a JSON command.
>>      
> Then, after a qemu-cmd is introduced, we should mark the user monitor deprecated
> along with a specific date/release its future for removal.
>    

I'm not sure.  The human monitor has some features that are not 
appropriate for QMP.  For instance, the ability to deal with formula 
input and some commands meant to add debugging.

I guess you could do that in qemu-cmd but I don't see a compelling 
reason to.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Daniel
>