Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: introduce query-config-schema

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:00:05 -0600
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:

> At any rate, we really DO want introspection, and having it in 1.5 is a
> worthwhile goal.  Even if the introspection turns up empty on legacy
> options, having it for the sake of new options is worth the effort.

Agreed. But as you said in another email, we need a JSON representation
for this command. Dumping all options as strings is just like using -help.

Something else that has occurred to me is that, do we want this to be
a QMP command or do we want this to be a command-line option? If we do this
as a QMP command then libvirt would have to actually start QEMU just to
query supported options.

Another interesting point is about full schema introspection. This patch
only supports command-line options. It would be desirable to be able to
introspect all QAPI types and QMP commands, although I'm aware that this
might be a lot of work to do for 1.5.