Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is there no qom_get in hmp.c?

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* QingFeng Hao (haoqf@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> Hi all,
> I did some investigation and found that "virsh qemu-monitor-command" supports qom-get,
> but qemu hmp doesn't. However, in hmp.c there are qom_list and qom_set. It confused me
> and my question is: why is this? And how can I get a property's value in hmp? e.g.
> qemu-system-* -nodefaults -machine accel=qtest -no-shutdown -nographic -monitor stdio -serial none -hda /root/t.qcow2
> "info qtree" can only get a few properties.

I did try that in 2016 (see my series from about September); but it got
bogged down in trying to fix output visitors; it's possible the visitor
code has been fixed since then though.

The 'Show values and description when using "qom-list"' patch
that Ricardo Perez Blanco posted would do something similar.

Dave

> Thanks a lot!
> -- 
> Regards
> QingFeng Hao
> 
> 
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