Alexander Graf wrote:
I don't see why we shouldn't be able to automatically generate libqemu.so. We have the *.hx files that describe the syntax of parameters plus list all available options / commands. I'm not sure how exactly QMP works, but having a generic QMP command to list all available options would be handy too.
By then we could automate most of the library, making the glueing really easy. If libvirt doesn't properly link against libqemu anymore we also know why: The ABI changed.
I'm thinking most potential uses of the binary API, other than C programmers, would be happier with a D-Bus version generated from those same *.hx files. Because then it's easy to call the API from Python, Perl, even shell, etc. Whereas libqemu.so would be relatively difficult to use from those languages. (Aside: I don't particularly like D-Bus. But it does seem to work for this sort of thing.) -- Jamie