Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 09:22:14PM +0100, Mark Burton wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 13 Dec 2021, at 18:59, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > …. we no longer have to solve everything
> > Ourselves. 
> 
> I support this sentiment.
> 
> Lets re-factor the code so people can build what they need using an API.
> Actually, ‘QEMU’ only need support the existing CLI, and provide a suitable 
> internal API.
> If that API was relatively stable, that would help those (few) who maintain a 
> different startup mechanism (but its only a ’nice to have’). (Making that 
> convenient, as Paolo has show, would also be ’nice to have’).

To be clear I do strongly believe that the QEMU project needs
to deliver the higher level simplified interface too. I just
want that higher level interface to be flexible enough to
let end users expand on what it offers, without having to
write C code nor having to switch entirely to the low level
interface like we do today.

IOW, QEMU needs to deliver more than just a low level building
block API.

Regards,
Daniel
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