On 03/26/2010 10:37 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
The importances of libqemu is:
1) Providing a common QMP transport implementation that is extensible by third parties 2) Providing a set of common transports that support automatic discovery of command line launched guests 3) Providing a generic QMP dispatch function
Adding to this C wrappers for QMP commands threatens to make QMP command arguments part of the library ABI. Compatible QMP evolution (like adding an optional argument) turns into a libqmp soname bump. Counter-productive. How do you plan to avoid that?
You could make the API use QObjects; then you're completely isolated from high level protocol changes. Of course, this is less useful than the full API. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.