Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qxl: Export "mode" as a property

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 11/20/12 10:48, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> [Cc'ing Anthony because this could be of general QOM interest]
> 
> Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On 11/19/12 14:11, Alexander Larsson wrote:
>>> This way you can easily tell from qemu if the guest is using
>>> a qxl driver or not.
>>
>> Device properties are for configuration, not inspection.
> 
> Read-only properties could serve fine as generic inspection mechanism.

We don't have read-only properties, at least not in the qdev world.

Dunno whenever QOM is different and whenever there is some way to query
QOM properties via monitor.  All those funky qom monitor commands seem
not to be in master yet ...

cheers,
  Gerd