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


From: Anthony Liguori
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] QMP: Introduce specification file
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:30:23 -0500
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Avi Kivity wrote:
On 06/26/2009 11:25 PM, Filip Navara wrote:
I don't think binary data is a requirement. An FDT should be transmitted as a tree, not as a binary blob. You could also transmit binary as a list of
bytes though.

You can transmit it as list of bytes and it's woefully inefficient. I
gave the FDT as an example, but I believe that binary data may be
needed in future for one purpose or another. The monitor already
provides a way to dump guest memory and I see no reason to not
transfer it using some "binary" encoding.

Another candidate is screendump. There's no reason to go through a file. We could pass a pipe as an fd and request a screendump to that fd, but that's rather roundabout.

Instead of inventing binary syntaxes, maybe we could use dictionary syntax to denote a mime encoded value?

So something like:

{"Content-Type": "image/ppm", "Content-Transfer-Encoding": "base64", "Content": "AB234SDFSDf=="}

A special brace format could be used if we wanted to make sure it was independently parsable:

<"Content-Type": "image/ppm", "Content-Transfer-Encoding": "base64", "Content": "AB234SDFSDf==">

But I suspect dicts are good enough.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori




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