On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 06:14:59PM -0200, Erlon Cruz wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I needed to run an external program in a guest machine. Once this must be
> triggered by the host, I first thought in qemu-ga.
> Is that possible? In QEMU help page and in the code I couldn't find such
> capability.
> So Im thinking In to implement a new GA QMP command that can run generic
> programs in the guest. It would be receive/return something like this:
>
> {"execute":"execvp",
> "arguments":{"command":"/bin/ls","cmdargs":"-la","timeout":20}}
> {"return": {"status": "0", "stdout": "aGVsbG8gd29ybGQhCg==", "stderr": ""}}
>
> Any thoughts/ideas about this?
I sent an RFC for this a while back: