Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Machine-readable or parseable qemu output

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:40:05PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> Continuing from the thread at [1], building on Daniel's suggestions, I
>> have jot down a few points as to how a libqemumonitor API could be
>> developed.
>>
>> To recap, there has to be an interface to the qemu monitor in
>> a way that wouldn't break even if the monitor output changes. This API
>> will remain the same, so that consumers (libvirt, etc) can safely
>> integrate with the monitor.
>>
>> Please see Dan's email at [1] to get the background details.
>>
>> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg14615.html
>>
>> Here are some initial thoughts. Comments?
>>     
>
> I'd like to add one more requirement
>
>  - Works with existing QEMU monitor for releases >= 0.8.0
>   

I think this is a bad requirement.

> This is because libvirt currently supports all QEMU >= 0.8.0,

libvirt has no bearing on upstream QEMU support :-)

>  so if
> we're to be able to make use of this library we can't restrict it
> to just new releases.

But you can conditionally use the new library instead of your custom 
parsing code for newer QEMU versions.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori