Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spice: increase the verbosity of spice section in "qemu --help"

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 08/26/2012 12:38 AM, Yonit Halperin wrote:
> On 08/21/2012 03:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 08/21/2012 04:54 AM, Yonit Halperin wrote:
>>> Added all spice options to the help string. This can be used by libvirt
>>> to determine which spice related features are supported by qemu.
>>
>> For older released, this is true; but for future versions of qemu,
>> libvirt would much rather learn this information from QMP commands than
>> from scraping -help output.  Can we get at all of this information
>> from QMP?
>>
> No, we don't have qmp commands for any of spice config options. I don't
> think it should be in the scope of this patch.

But since we have already declared that 1.2 is the last release where
libvirt will be scraping -help output, and that 1.3 and later will allow
libvirt to query all configuration information via QMP commands, I think
that you really _do_ need to consider QMP commands in the scope of this
patch series, if you expect libvirt to be able to react to this
information in qemu 1.3.

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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