Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] qga: guest exec functionality

[Yuri Pudgorodskiy <yur@virtuozzo.com>]

On 10/2/2015 1:59 AM, Michael Roth wrote:
>> +#
>> +# Since: 2.5
>> +##
>> +{ 'command': 'guest-exec',
>> +  'data':    { 'path': 'str', '*arg': ['str'], '*env': ['str'],
>> +               '*inp-data': 'str', '*capture-output': 'bool' },
>> +  'returns': 'GuestExec' }
> Would it make sense to just add handle (pid) to GuestExecStatus, and
> have this return GuestExecStatus just the same as guest-exec-status
> does? I'm not sure either way personally, just thought I'd mention it.
>

I do not think it's a good idea. GuestExecStatus contains mostly the 
data about
the finished exec. Having GuestExec returns same struct may make wrong
assumption that it can be synchronous - wait for exec to complete and 
return all
data in a single call.

Implementing synchronous GuestExec is not and easy job - either we occupy
host-guest channel for all time until task finished, which is bad or we 
need to
implement multiplexed messages for concurrent qga commands.