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Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Add a monitor command which allows the user (or management tools) to
> query what features the given qemu binary supports.
>
> The output format is ".ini style" and is intended to list:
>
>   1) New features - e.g. cache=writethrough
>
>   2) Compile time configurables - e.g. built with kqemu support
>
>   3) Magic numbers - e.g. the vcpu limit
>   

The monitor is a late interface -- you need this information to 
determine some of the command-line parameters that were used to start 
qemu and the monitor!

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