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

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.