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To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>  Yeah, I agree.
>
>  When testing migration, for example, I have to type 'migrate -d tcp:0:4444'
> several times... Maybe there's a smarter way to do this, but the monitor
> macros idea seems interesting to me.
>   

When we have QMP, we can create a QMP socket at a well known location 
based on the -name parameter.  We could also introduce a qm command that 
allowed one to execute monitor commands from the shell.  That allows 
people to write whatever crazy shell scripts they want.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori