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

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> But you can conditionally use the new library instead of your custom 
>> parsing code for newer QEMU versions.
>>     
>
> That is true, but if there are a number of apps around which want to
> support multiple versions of QEMU, it is beneficial to centralize
> this conditional logic in libqemumonitor.so instead, of making each
> app implement the compat logic for the existing monitor format. I'm
> not against adding a new machine friendly monitor format, I'd just
> prefer it if one library API could provide impl for both old and new
> format, obviously preferring to use the new format where available.
>   

Perhaps libvirt can donate its parsing code for use as a fallback in 
libqemumonitor.so.

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