Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vl.c: Support multiple CPU ranges on -numa option

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 04:57:15PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 27/02/2013 16:42, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
> > There's such thing as list support in QemuOpts.  The only way
> > QemuOptsVisitor was able to implement it was to expose QemuOpts publicly
> > via options_int.h and rely on a implementation detail.
> > 
> > There are fixed types supported by QemuOpts.  It just so happens that
> > whenever qemu_opt_set() is called, instead of replacing the last
> > instance, the value is either prepended or appended in order to
> > implement a replace or set-if-unset behavior.
> 
> Fair enough.  Nobody said the implementation is pretty.
> 
> > If we want to have list syntax, we need to introduce first class support
> > for it.  Here's a simple example of how to do this.
> 
> If it is meant as a prototype only, and the final command-line syntax
> would be with repeated keys, that's okay.  I think that Eduardo/Markus/I
> are focusing on the user interface, you're focusing in the implementation.
> 
> In the meanwhile, however, it seems to me that Eduardo can use
> QemuOptsVisitor---which can also hide the details and provide type safety.

Whatever I use to implement it, I still need to know how the
command-line syntax will look like, because we need to tell libvirt
developers how they should write the QEMU command-line.

-- 
Eduardo