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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, clalance@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, crobinso@redhat.com

On 05/13/10 15:33, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> This omits the KVM version string which is something we also want to see.
> It would also be nice to avoid having to parse the -help output to determine
> ARGV supported too. I wonder if it would be a good idea to just produce a
> well structured equivalent to -help that provides the same data, but in 
> JSON format for sane parsing. That would let peple easily determine the
> supported ARGV as well as version number(s)

I just made it print the version numbers that were already part of the
regular string, but I see no problem adding a KVM version number to the
output as well.

As for the JSON stuff, then I'll volunteer you to write the patch for it
:) To be honest, I have no clue what JSON is!

Cheers,
Jes