From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nuoo1-0000DD-Db for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:17:09 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58134 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nuony-0000Bi-3h for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:17:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nuonv-0007en-I9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:17:05 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:18945) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nuonv-0007dp-9z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:17:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:16:44 +0000 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt Message-ID: <20100325151644.GI10705@redhat.com> References: <4BAA6CD9.6060001@redhat.com> <20100324171219.4365318b@redhat.com> <4BAA76EA.2060601@codemonkey.ws> <20100324182501.000b69a7@redhat.com> <4BAA86C2.4020701@codemonkey.ws> <4BAB1E21.8080009@snarc.org> <20100325135922.GB10705@redhat.com> <20100325145652.GA25506@snarc.org> <20100325150720.GH10705@redhat.com> <20100325151424.GB25506@snarc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100325151424.GB25506@snarc.org> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Vincent Hanquez Cc: "libvir-list@redhat.com" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino , Paul Brook , Avi Kivity On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:14:24PM +0000, Vincent Hanquez wrote: > 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. Then, after a qemu-cmd is introduced, we should mark the user monitor deprecated along with a specific date/release its future for removal. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|