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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Michael D Roth <mdroth@us.ibm.com>, Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>

On 03/08/2011 04:38 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
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> http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI/GuestAgent
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Nice.  A couple of remarks.

We may want to use a different way of separating the namespaces - 
enacapsulation:

{
   'command': 'guest-command',
    arguments: {
      'command': 'read-file',
      'arguments': {
          'path': '/var/log/messages'
      }
   }
}

This serves to decouple the two protocols, which may have different 
support lifetimes (hopefully not).

In addition to commands we may also implement a key-value store.  A 
large number of commands may be easy to implement using a single 
key/value, and it's also easy to live migrate (key/values being stored 
in but not understood by qemu).

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