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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/9] qemu capabilities reporting and config
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/9] qemu capabilities reporting and config changes |
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Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:33:50 +0100 |
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Il 19/03/2012 17:31, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>>> It also plumbs the existing command line options through QemuOpts via
>>> a special
>>> 'system' section. This means that any command line option can be
>>> specified via
>>> readconfig and that the combination of -nodefconfig and -writeconfig
>>> should give
>>> you exactly the same guest in a repeatable fashion.
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>> I don't like this because it turns command-line options into ABI.
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> It's already an ABI, no?
Right, sorry. Into configuration file ABI, which is supposed to be the
"cleaner" ABI.
>> Also, it puts there some options for which -writeconfig is actually
>> able to produce a QemuOpts equivalent, such as -monitor.
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> That may be a bug depending on what your concern is. Can you be more
> specific?
If you write "-monitor stdio" with your series, do you get one or two
monitors in the resulting configuration file?
Paolo
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/9] qmp: expose a command to query capabilities of config parser, (continued)
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 9/9] Add a management tool writer's guide, Anthony Liguori, 2012/03/19
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/9] vl: parse all options via QemuOpts, Anthony Liguori, 2012/03/19
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/9] vl: add -query-capabilities, Anthony Liguori, 2012/03/19
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/9] qemu capabilities reporting and config changes, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/03/19
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/9] qemu capabilities reporting and config changes, Gerd Hoffmann, 2012/03/20
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/9] qemu capabilities reporting and config changes, Eduardo Habkost, 2012/03/20