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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:14:24 +0000
From: Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs
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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: "libvir-list@redhat.com" <libvir-list@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:07:20PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> I agree apps shouldn't use it for RPC, but admins using the interactive user 
> monitor are just as deserving of stable commands & args. 

I think, once QMP is completely there, admins would be better using a qemu-cmd
that's just serialise it's command line arguments into a JSON command.
(something like dbus-send for dbus).

-- 
Vincent