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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] monitor: add "info capabilities" command
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:07:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <491D4DFA.9000206@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226594763-2304-6-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com>

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Add a monitor command which allows the user (or management tools) to
> query what features the given qemu binary supports.
>
> The output format is ".ini style" and is intended to list:
>
>   1) New features - e.g. cache=writethrough
>
>   2) Compile time configurables - e.g. built with kqemu support
>
>   3) Magic numbers - e.g. the vcpu limit
>   

The monitor is a late interface -- you need this information to 
determine some of the command-line parameters that were used to start 
qemu and the monitor!

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-14 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-13 16:45 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Add "info capabilities" monitor command Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 16:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Re-factor nic model listing Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 16:46   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Add cpu_list() for any targets that don't already have it Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 16:46     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Rename xxx_cpu_list() to cpu_xxx_list() Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 16:46       ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Add new cpu_names() function Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 16:46         ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] monitor: add "info capabilities" command Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 19:50           ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-11-14 16:02             ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-14 10:07           ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-11-14 15:58             ` [Qemu-devel] " Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-16  7:17               ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-14 10:13           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-11-13 19:47         ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 4/5] Add new cpu_names() function Anthony Liguori
2008-11-14 15:36           ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 18:35   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Re-factor nic model listing Paul Brook
2008-11-13 19:45     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-13 22:50       ` Paul Brook
2008-11-14  2:31         ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-14  2:49           ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-13 19:44   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-11-14 15:34     ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-13 17:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Add "info capabilities" monitor command Blue Swirl
2008-11-14  2:50   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-14 16:09     ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-14  3:28 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-11-14  3:51   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-14 15:56     ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-14 22:54       ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-14 15:51   ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-14 22:52     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-14 10:16 ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange

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