Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Re: Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt

On 03/25/2010 10:16 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:14:24PM +0000, Vincent Hanquez wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:07:20PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> >>> I agree apps shouldn't use it for RPC, but admins using the >>> interactive user >>> monitor are just as deserving of stable commands& args. >>> >> I think, once QMP is completely there, admins would be better using >> a qemu-cmd >> that's just serialise it's command line arguments into a JSON command. >> > Then, after a qemu-cmd is introduced, we should mark the user monitor > deprecated > along with a specific date/release its future for removal. > I'm not sure. The human monitor has some features that are not appropriate for QMP. For instance, the ability to deal with formula input and some commands meant to add debugging. I guess you could do that in qemu-cmd but I don't see a compelling reason to.