Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU patch to allow VM introspection via libvmi

[Valerio Aimale <valerio@aimale.com>]

On 10/22/15 2:03 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/22/2015 01:57 PM, Valerio Aimale wrote:
>
>> pmemmap would return the following json
>>
>> {
>>      'success' : 'true',
>>      'map_filename' : '/tmp/QEM_mmap_1234567'
>> }
> In general, it is better if the client controls the filename, and not
> qemu.  This is because things like libvirt like to run qemu in a
> highly-constrained environment, where the caller can pass in a file
> descriptor that qemu cannot itself open().  So returning a filename is
> pointless if the filename was already provided by the caller.
>
Eric, I absolutely and positively agree with you. I was just 
brainstorming. Consider my pseudo-C code as the mailing list analog of 
somebody scribbling on a white board and trying explain an idea.

I agree with you the file name should come from the qmp client.