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

[Avi Kivity]

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.

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