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From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] QMP: Introduce specification file
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To: Filip Navara <filip.navara@gmail.com>
Cc: ehabkost@redhat.com, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, dlaor@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:03:13 +0200
Filip Navara <filip.navara@gmail.com> wrote:

> The current draft specification used a mix of semantics of the
> forementioned protocols - error handling based on POP3 (+OK/-ERR),
> asynchronous events based on IMAP (* prefix). IMAP-like tagging of
> commands was also suggested (to deal with asynchronous commands) and
> issues have been raised concerning multi-line responses. Note that all
> this gets a bit hairy when you combine it. Just a few issues that come
> to mind:

 Although I think QMP is very close to what QEMU needs, there is no
doubt it's not complete.

 I appreciate your feedback, but I will only go through it if we
decide using QMP.