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From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	alevy@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH 2/2] console: add screendump-device qmp cmd
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:13:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130618091323.26c2988b@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51C02766.5020301@redhat.com>

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:24:54 +0200
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 06/17/13 16:50, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> >>> > > +struct screendump_job {
> >>> > > +    QEMUBH *bh;
> >>> > > +    QemuConsole *con;
> >>> > > +    char *filename;
> >>> > > +};
> >> > 
> >> > We have a job API in the block layer.  Would it make sense to have a
> >> > QMP-level job interface?
> > I'd agree with this.
> 
> Something like the attached patch?  Which is just the bare minimum I'll
> need for screendump.  Basically a one-off bottom half with some monitor
> infrastructure (job id, error handling).  So it isn't for big jobs, but
> for small jobs which have to wait for something before they execute
> (spice-server, guest action, whatever).

I only skimmed over the patch, but you need QMP commands to cancel
and to query running jobs. Also, please move all this stuff to qmp.c
and do s/monitor/qmp rename.

Lastly, is it possible to have the block job QMP API on top of this
new QMP job API?

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-18 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-17 14:01 [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH 0/2] new screendump qmp command Gerd Hoffmann
2013-06-17 14:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH 1/2] display update with notification Gerd Hoffmann
2013-06-17 14:39   ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-17 14:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH 2/2] console: add screendump-device qmp cmd Gerd Hoffmann
2013-06-17 14:43   ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-17 14:50     ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-06-18  9:24       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-06-18 13:13         ` Luiz Capitulino [this message]
2013-06-18 13:24           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-06-18 14:47             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-25 10:28               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-07-12 17:01         ` Eric Blake
2013-07-12 17:06   ` Eric Blake

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