While testing QMP, I used a simple qemu session of 'qemu-kvm -M none -nodefaults -nographic -qmp stdio' for some experiments. But it took me far too long to remember the magic invocation to unlock QMP into accepting normal commands. While I was able to grep libvirt sources and easily find where libvirt expects the normal "QMP" greeting, I could not find the proper reply to that greeting nearby. Reading the testsuite didn't help either, since there we don't emulate the mandatory handshake. But since my grep hit the testsuite, adding a bit of documentation will make it much easier to jog my memory in the future. * tests/qemumonitortestutils.c (QEMU_JSON_GREETING): Mention that the normal counterpart reply is skipped. --- tests/qemumonitortestutils.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c b/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c index d1b2ab5..7b90c38 100644 --- a/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c +++ b/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* - * Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Red Hat, Inc. + * Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Red Hat, Inc. * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public @@ -439,6 +439,8 @@ static qemuMonitorCallbacks qemuCallbacks = { }; #define QEMU_JSON_GREETING "{\"QMP\": {\"version\": {\"qemu\": {\"micro\": 1, \"minor\": 0, \"major\": 1}, \"package\": \" (qemu-kvm-1.0.1)\"}, \"capabilities\": []}}" +/* We skip the normal handshake reply of "{\"execute\":\"qmp_capabilities\"}" */ + #define QEMU_TEXT_GREETING "QEMU 1.0,1 monitor - type 'help' for more information" qemuMonitorTestPtr qemuMonitorTestNew(bool json, virCapsPtr caps)