Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 v2 4/5] qmp-shell: Accept QMP command as argument

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 08:25:41AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:03:53PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >> Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> Suggest to insert here:
> >> 
> >>   If additional arguments QMP-COMMAND ARG=VAL... are given, run just
> >>   that QMP command instead of the REPL.
> >> 
> >> Question: is this limited to simple arguments?  If no, how would I write
> >> an object argument?  For instance, how would I do
> >> 
> >>     { "execute": "blockdev-add", "arguments": { "node-name": "foo", "driver": "nbd", "server": { "type": "inet", "host": "localhost", "port": "12345" } } }
> >> 
> >> ?
> >
> > Exactly the same way you would write it when running qmp-shell in
> > interactive mode.  e.g.:
> >
> >   $ ./scripts/qmp/qmp-shell /tmp/qmp blockdev-add driver=qcow2 node-name=node-E 'file={"driver":"file","filename":"/path/to/file.qcow2"}'
> 
> I see.
> 
> The QEMU command line uses dotted key syntax instead.

You mean -blockdev, or is there another way to send QMP commands
to QEMU that I'm not aware of?

> 
> To be honest, the less qmp-shell is used, the happier I am.

What people would use instead of it?

>                                                              Would you
> like to serve as its sub-maintainer?

I'd be glad to.

-- 
Eduardo