Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/9] qom: HMP commands to supersede info qtree

[Markus Armbruster]

Andreas Färber <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> The main patch of this series is an HMP command "info qom-tree",
> which displays the machine composition tree. This names all objects,
> including those missing in "info qtree" for lack of bus or for not being a 
> device.
>
> Properties can be listed with "qom-list" and set with "qom-set", like in QMP.
>
> "qom-get" and displaying properties as part of "info qom-tree" ran into
> StringOutputVisitor limitations - this v2 therefore stubs that support out
> so that we don't crash.
>
> This series has been around for a year now; I hope to get at least qom-list 
> and
> the basic info qom-tree into v2.3, as visualization of my upcoming CPU 
> changes.
>
> Also included are two proposed cleanups of nodes in /machine namespace.
> By making it easier to inspect the tree, I hope we'll detect this earlier.

I haven't been able to try it out (up to my ears in an almost finished
task), but this sounds like it'll save me quite some messing around with
qom-fuse.  Awesome, thanks!