Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Add "info capabilities" monitor command

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:45:58PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> The proposed solution is to add a new monitor command which will
> list exactly what this qemu binary is capable of. Rather than include
> every possible capability, I've limited it to:
> 
>   1) New features; if a version of qemu supports the capabilities
>      info command, you can assume that it also supports features
>      that were added before that.
> 
>   2) Compile time configurables which affect what features can be
>      requested on the command line - e.g. kqemu support
> 
>   3) Magic numbers; a managment tool might know that qemu only
>      supports 2 IDE devices - and that may never change - but
>      it's much nicer if the tool can be coded generically rather
>      than hardcoding a magic number.
> 
> The patch implementing this isn't perfect by any means, but since
> this could be implemented in so many different ways I thought I'd
> post it and get people's feedback.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark.
> 
> Example output:
> 
> [qemu]
> accel=kqemu,kvm
> arch=x86_64
> cpu=qemu64,core2duo,qemu32,coreduo,486,pentium,pentium2,pentium3,athlon,n270
> machines=pc,isapc

I like this proprosed output format because it is very nice & easy to
parse, read & understand.

Daniel
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