Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 12/13/21 19:07, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>    - /usr/bin/qemu (or /usr/bin/qemu-vm) - for a high level binary that
>      targets humans and uses a templating system to expose a friendly
>      simple config, that internally invokes whichever target specific
>      /usr/bin/qemu-buildvm-$TARGET is implied, plus any other vhost-user
>      backends, or whatever other helper processes it needs

Adding vhost-user backends and helper processes means one of two things: 
either you are not going to support hotplug, or you are going to redo 
libvirtd with a QMP-based RPC.

Paolo