Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: QEMU Monitor Protocol git tree

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:08:22 +0100
"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:44:30PM -0300, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > 
> >  Hi there,
> > 
> > While I was converting command handlers to the QObject style I realized that
> > it would be very interesting to have the protocol working up front, so that
> > converted handlers could be tested to assure that their data types have been
> > chosen correctly.
> > 
> > More importantly, some protocol design decisions can affect handlers signatures,
> > so having at least an idea of how the protocol will look like will help us to
> > stay on the right track during mass conversion.
> > 
> > So, I have implemented a rudimentary version of the QEMU Monitor Protocol (QMP)
> > it has a command-line switch to enable the protocol.
> > 
> > You will find it at:
> > 
> > http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/qmp-unstable.git
> > 
> > The QMP directory of that tree has some documents plus a Python script which
> > communicates with QEMU by using the protocol and emulates a shell, although
> > only few commands are working..
> 
> It doesn't compile on i386
> 
> $ make
>   CC    i386-softmmu/monitor.o
> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> /home/berrange/src/external/qmp-unstable/monitor.c: In function ‘monitor_json_emitter’:
> /home/berrange/src/external/qmp-unstable/monitor.c:277: error: format ‘%li’ expects type ‘long int’, but argument 3 has type ‘int64_t’
> /home/berrange/src/external/qmp-unstable/monitor.c: In function ‘monitor_print_qobject’:
> /home/berrange/src/external/qmp-unstable/monitor.c:398: error: format ‘%lu’ expects type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 3 has type ‘int64_t’
> make[1]: *** [monitor.o] Error 1

 Fixed.

 Note that I'm rebasing this tree, so that I can cherry-pick
patches easily for upstream submission.