[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC v0 00/15] QEMU Monitor Protocol

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:20:30 +0200
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 11/19/2009 05:13 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> >   Hi,
> >
> >   This is not stable yet, it has a few bugs and a number of things to
> > be done, but I'm sending it now so that it can get an initial review
> > while I'm working on it.
> >
> >   At the end of the series there are two simple Python scripts which are
> > able to talk to QEMU by using QMP.
> >
> >   Main issues are:
> >
> > o Not all errors are being detected/handled correctly
> > o Not using the stream parser to read the input
> >
> >   If you want to try this, you need at least the latest version of QError,
> > and the conversions series to make this really useful.
> >    
> 
> Can you post a capture of a few monitor commands through the new protocol?

 Here goes, it's a telnet session:

"""
{"QMP": {"capabilities": []}}

{ "execute": "info", "arguments": { "item": "balloon" } }
{"return": 1024}

{ "execute": "balloon", "arguments": { "value": 512 } }
{"return": "OK"}

{ "execute": "info", "arguments": { "item": "balloon" } }
{"return": 512}

{ "execute": "info", "arguments": { "item": "network" } }
{"return": [{"devices": [{"name": "user.0", "info": "net=10.0.2.0, restricted=n"}, {"name": "e1000.0", "info": "model=e1000,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:56"}], "id": 0}]}

{ "execute": "pci_add", "arguments": { "pci_addr": "auto", "type": "nic" } }
{"return": {"bus": 0, "slot": 5, "domain": 0, "function": 0}}

{ "execute": "info", "arguments": { "item": "network" } }
{"return": [{"devices": [{"name": "user.0", "info": "net=10.0.2.0, restricted=n"}, {"name": "e1000.0", "info": "model=e1000,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:56"}, {"name": "rtl8139.0", "info": "model=rtl8139,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:57"}], "id": 0}]}

{ "execute": "migrate", "arguments": { "detach": "-d", "uri": "tcp:localhost:4445" } }
{"error": {"class": "InvalidParameter", "data": {"parameter": "detach", "reason": "must be an integer"}}}
"""