From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: Should Qemu monitor be enabled by default Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:04:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20070412210414.GD19956@redhat.com> References: <3d8eece20704110510i31c4f66br56ea3acc5d7b2f68@mail.gmail.com> <094BCE01AFBE9646AF220B0B3F367AABCD9F85@pdsmsx413.ccr.corp.intel.com> <20070412153831.GM4393@redhat.com> <3d8eece20704121340n7ba9b2a9nb67f55eb598019@mail.gmail.com> <20070412205127.GC19956@redhat.com> <3d8eece20704121400u59a1026ao1521308e806ef0a@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3d8eece20704121400u59a1026ao1521308e806ef0a@mail.gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk Cc: Atsushi SAKAI , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, "You, Yongkang" , ?????? List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:00:45PM +0100, Christian Limpach wrote: > >What I mean is that if we wanted to implement a 'xm monitor' command, > >then XenD would need to launch QEMU with '-monitor pty' (or equivalent) > >at which point you'd be unable to also have '-monitor vc' on the same > >command line. > > Which is why the monitor option should take a string, it can then > default to whatever is useable for "xm monitor". "xm monitor" should > imho be xm console with an option to make it connect to the monitor > pty. Yes, that would work pretty well - and shouldn't require much code at all - 'xm monitor' impl would pretty much be identical to that for the existing 'xm console' code, merely looking up a different PTY path in XenStored. > >I've not had any trouble with it myself, but I've not tested it much. > >I was refering to the earlier mail in this thread > > > >http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-04/msg00222.html > > > >where Nishi indicated his motivation for wanting access to the monitor > >via a VC was that block-configure wasn't reliable. > > You should have read the replies as well, before making claims that > something doesn't work. Sorry, that's cleared things up. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|