From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nunw3-0005Ck-1L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:21:23 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53239 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nunw1-0005Cc-Qg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:21:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nunvz-0006gC-CN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:21:21 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:23107) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nunvz-0006fz-30 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:21:19 -0400 Message-ID: <4BAB7152.7080607@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:21:06 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt References: <4BA7C40C.2040505@codemonkey.ws> <20100323145105.GV16253@redhat.com> <4BA8D8A9.7090308@codemonkey.ws> <201003231557.19474.paul@codesourcery.com> <4BA8E6FC.9080207@codemonkey.ws> <4BA901B5.3020704@redhat.com> <4BA9A066.3070904@redhat.com> <20100324103643.GB624@redhat.com> <4BA9EC88.6000906@redhat.com> <20100324134250.38822113@redhat.com> <4BAA6CD9.6060001@redhat.com> <20100324171219.4365318b@redhat.com> <4BAA76EA.2060601@codemonkey.ws> <20100324182501.000b69a7@redhat.com> <4BAA86C2.4020701@codemonkey.ws> <4BAB1E21.8080009@snarc.org> <4BAB5805.9080000@codemonkey.ws> <4BAB58F1.20401@redhat.com> <4BAB68A2.6020707@codemonkey.ws> <4BAB69C9.6080704@redhat.com> <4BAB6BD0.1000509@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4BAB6BD0.1000509@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: "libvir-list@redhat.com" , Vincent Hanquez , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paul Brook , Luiz Capitulino On 03/25/2010 03:57 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 03/25/2010 08:48 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: >>> >>> But an awful lot of the providers for pegasus are written in C. >> >> But we're concerned with only one, the virt provider. None of the >> others will use libqemu? >> >>> The point is, C is a lowest common denominator and it's important to >>> support in a proper way. >> >> Problem is, it means horrible support for everyone else. > > Why? > > We can provide a generic QMP dispatch interface that high level > languages can use. Then they can do fancy dispatch, treat QErrors as > exceptions, etc. > Sure, with high level wrappers everything's fine. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function