Re: [Qemu-devel] Staging update (0.12 pending freeze)

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On 12/04/09 01:04, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Problem is, control is not a property of the character device. To
> express this in a consistent way with everything else, you would have to
> make this QemuOpts-like so it would look like
>
> -monitor control,device=tcp:localhost:444,server
>
> But so far, the monitor, serial, parallel, etc. devices don't take
> QemuOpts.
 >
> OTH, having:
>
> -qmp tcp:localhost:444,server

I think we should create a new option for monitor configuration, like this:

   -mon mode={control,readline},chardev=<name>,more-options-here

So you'll create a qmp monitor socket this way:

   -chardev socket,path=/tmp/qmpsock,id=qmp,server,nowait
   -mon mode=control,chardev=qmp

Then the -monitor switch will be legacy/convinience syntax for a 
readline monitor with auto-created chardev named 'monitor<nr>'.

If we need more options in the future they can be added easily.

cheers,
   Gerd