Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 01/11] QMP: Introduce specification file

[Anthony Liguori]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> > stop
> > cont
>
> These certainly seem very synchronous to me.

Not with KVM.  You have to wait for the VCPU threads to get notified and 
stop.  Maybe it's not a big deal to block during this.

> > migrate
> > balloon 
>
> Isn't balloon synchronous?  It sets the target and exits immediately.  
> We don't want command completion to depend on the guest.

I can see a use-case for having balloon only return when the target has 
been reached by the guest.

I think I can buy the event stuff.  As long as we version QMP protocol, 
we can potentially fix this down the road.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori