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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Add "info capabilities" monitor command
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Daniel P. Berrange |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Add "info capabilities" monitor command |
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Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:16:27 +0000 |
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:45:58PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> The proposed solution is to add a new monitor command which will
> list exactly what this qemu binary is capable of. Rather than include
> every possible capability, I've limited it to:
>
> 1) New features; if a version of qemu supports the capabilities
> info command, you can assume that it also supports features
> that were added before that.
>
> 2) Compile time configurables which affect what features can be
> requested on the command line - e.g. kqemu support
>
> 3) Magic numbers; a managment tool might know that qemu only
> supports 2 IDE devices - and that may never change - but
> it's much nicer if the tool can be coded generically rather
> than hardcoding a magic number.
>
> The patch implementing this isn't perfect by any means, but since
> this could be implemented in so many different ways I thought I'd
> post it and get people's feedback.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark.
>
> Example output:
>
> [qemu]
> accel=kqemu,kvm
> arch=x86_64
> cpu=qemu64,core2duo,qemu32,coreduo,486,pentium,pentium2,pentium3,athlon,n270
> machines=pc,isapc
I like this proprosed output format because it is very nice & easy to
parse, read & understand.
Daniel
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- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/5] Re-factor nic model listing, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Add "info capabilities" monitor command,
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