Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] Rework --name to use QemuOpts

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 02/11/2014 02:07 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 10/02/2014 17:12, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto:
>>> > I'd checked every piece of output I'd found, but hadn't found
>>> > the query-command-line-options;   I think you're right there
>>> > are no other \n's in there - but also all the other .help texts
>>> > are much briefer and less chatty; maybe I need to just chop
>>> > them down to a minimum, I wonder if there is anywhere they're
>>> > ever displayed to a human?
>> I share your wondering :)
> 
> I do too, but I'd wager the answer is no.

Libvirt logs the result of query-command-line-options, including the
human portion associated with the details.  And libvirt also exposes the
'virsh qemu-monitor-command' backdoor which can be used by developers to
get at the human-readable information in this query.  I _have_ called
query-command-line-options to see what it output, and did appreciate the
human text available there.

But you are correct that in the day-to-day operation of libvirtd, the
human text is ignored - it's there mainly for developers.

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


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