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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: dlaor@redhat.com
Cc: Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 02/27/2011 03:55 AM, Dor Laor wrote:
> What about a simpler approach were QMP events will be written to a 
> event-log-file (or even named pipe).

The management tool can just use a small daemon that does nothing other 
than write QMP events to a log.  There's no real need for this code to 
live in QEMU.

Since events are posted, even if we wrote it in QEMU, the event wouldn't 
be guaranteed on disk by the time the event invocation returns.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori