[PATCH 2/3] NEWS: Mention the tool virt-qemu-qmp-proxy

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Tue Nov 1 09:31:00 UTC 2022


On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 13:49:11 +0800, Han Han wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Han Han <hhan at redhat.com>
> ---
>  NEWS.rst | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
> index 1d4fb62d5e..7b856f4d3f 100644
> --- a/NEWS.rst
> +++ b/NEWS.rst
> @@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ v8.9.0 (unreleased)
>  
>  * **New features**
>  
> +  * tools: Add the tool for proxying QMP via libvirt QEMU guests
> +
> +    This tool ``virt-qemu-qmp-proxy`` provides a way to expose a QMP proxy server
> +    that communicates with a QEMU guest managed by libvirt. This enables standard
> +    QMP client tools to interact with libvirt managed guests.

I'll reword this and add a disclaimer that use of this tool may de-sync
the state and thus should be used at own risk:

  * Add ``virt-qemu-qmp-proxy`` for emulating a QMP socket for libvirt managed VMs

    ``virt-qemu-qmp-proxy`` tool provides a way to expose an emulated QMP server
    socket for a VM managed by libvirt. This allows existing QMP-only clients
    to work with libvirt managed VMs.

    **Note:** libvirt is not interpreting the communication between the tool
    using the proxy and qemu itself, so any state-changing commands may
    desynchronize libvirt. Use at your own risk.



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