Re: [libvirt] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] Allow multiple monitor devices (v2)
Jan Kiszka wrote:
Avi Kivity wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>
>> On 04/09/09 16:03, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>>> I don't want multiplexed monitor sessions, at all.
>>>
>> I'm very happy to finally see them. Finally one can run vms with
>> libvirt and *still* access the monitor for debugging and development
>> purposes.
>>
>>
> Right, I like them for that purpose as well. But not for ordinary control.
>
How do you want to differentiate? What further complications would this
bring us?
I'm not sure I understand your questions. Multiple monitor sessions are
like multiple shell sessions. I don't think a control program should
use more than one session, but it should allow a developer to connect to
issue 'info registers' and 'x/20i' commands. Of course if a developer
issues 'quit' or a hotunplug command, things will break.
Please no more async notifications to the monitors. They are just ugly
to parse, at least for us humans. I don't want to see any notification
in the middle of my half-typed command e.g.
If we can identify an interactive session, we might redraw the partial
command after the prompt.
btw, why would a human enable notifications? Note notifications enabled
on the management session will only be displayed there.
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