Re: [Qemu-devel] Staging update (0.12 pending freeze)

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 12/04/09 01:04, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Problem is, control is not a property of the character device. To
>> express this in a consistent way with everything else, you would have to
>> make this QemuOpts-like so it would look like
>>
>> -monitor control,device=tcp:localhost:444,server
>>
>> But so far, the monitor, serial, parallel, etc. devices don't take
>> QemuOpts.
> >
>> OTH, having:
>>
>> -qmp tcp:localhost:444,server
>
> I think we should create a new option for monitor configuration, like 
> this:
>
>   -mon mode={control,readline},chardev=<name>,more-options-here
>
> So you'll create a qmp monitor socket this way:
>
>   -chardev socket,path=/tmp/qmpsock,id=qmp,server,nowait
>   -mon mode=control,chardev=qmp

Works for me.  Would be nice to have a -qmp convenience option too.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori