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Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration
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Markus Armbruster |
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Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:12:29 +0100 |
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Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 03:42:52PM +0100, Mark Burton wrote:
>> I think we’re talking at cross purposes, and probably we agree (not sure).
>> I’ll top quote to try and explain my point of view.
>>
>> I think there are two discussions being mixed:
>> 1/ A discussion about improving the CLI. (Having a new one, etc etc)
>> 2/ A discussion about supporting a low level, and complete, API that can be
>> used by “management layers” (QAPI).
>>
>> I think this also gets mixed up with the discussion on migrating the CLI to
>> use the low level API.
>>
>> I want to focus on the low level API.
>>
>> I dont see why we’re discussing a ‘high level’ thing when, for now, we have
>> to support the CLI, and we have work to do on QAPI.
>
> We're discussing both because we're setting out what our end goal is
> to be, and that end goal should be expected to cover both use cases.
>
>> If somebody wants to build a new CLI, with a new ‘high level’
>> interface, using QAPI - let them!
>
> This is too weak of a statement, as it implies that a replacement
> high level interface is optional and not important for the overall
> project. I don't believe that to be the case, so I'm saying that
> our design & impl plan has to demonstrate how we intend to cover
> both deliverables or use cases. We can't simply ignore the high
> level API saying it is someone else's problem to worry about.
Seconded.
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, (continued)
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Paolo Bonzini, 2021/12/13
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2021/12/13
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Mark Burton, 2021/12/13
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2021/12/14
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Mark Burton, 2021/12/14
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2021/12/14
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Mark Burton, 2021/12/14
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2021/12/14
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Mark Burton, 2021/12/14
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2021/12/14
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration,
Markus Armbruster <=
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Mark Burton, 2021/12/14
Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Markus Armbruster, 2021/12/10
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Paolo Bonzini, 2021/12/10
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Markus Armbruster, 2021/12/13
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Paolo Bonzini, 2021/12/13
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2021/12/13
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Paolo Bonzini, 2021/12/13
- Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2021/12/13
- Meeting today?, Mark Burton, 2021/12/14
- Re: Meeting today?, Markus Armbruster, 2021/12/14