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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:18:23 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: "libvir-list@redhat.com" <libvir-list@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> I'm not sure.  The human monitor has some features that are not 
> appropriate for QMP.  For instance, the ability to deal with formula 
> input and some commands meant to add debugging.
> 
> I guess you could do that in qemu-cmd but I don't see a compelling 
> reason to.

Would it be all that much work to just rip out the human monitor
altogether, moving it's functionality to qemu-cmd?  That'd be a great
way to confirm that QMP has all the functionality.

It doesn't have to be written in C, by the way ;-)

-- Jamie