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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:13:02 +0000
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] monitor: add "info capabilities" command
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:46:03PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Add a monitor command which allows the user (or management tools) to
> query what features the given qemu binary supports.
> 
> The output format is ".ini style" and is intended to list:

I think this would be better exposed as a command line flag
such as "-capabilities", which just sent the '.ini' file data
to stdout. 

Regards,
Daniel
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