[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Re: Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt
Anthony Liguori
anthony at codemonkey.ws
Thu Mar 25 16:01:46 UTC 2010
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
>
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