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

On 03/09/2011 02:51 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/08/2011 09:19 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> Both the guest and the management agent (and both can listen for 
>>> events).  I don't see why guest->qemu RPC is problematic for 
>>> migration - at least when qemu terminates it.
>>
>>
>> If it's terminated in QEMU, it's fine, but then it's not QMP 
>> anymore.  Let me think about whether there's a way to achieve this 
>> without a guest->qemu RPC.
>
> Why not?
>
> { execute: 'write-keystore' arguments: { 'key': 'foo', 'value': 'bar' } }

This is coming from the guest?  QMP doesn't do bidirectional RPC today.  
It could, but that is a fundamental change in the protocol.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> etc.
>