Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Device state visualization reloaded

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 09/06/2011 11:05 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-09-06 17:51, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> I'm still contemplating how we go about doing this.  This series
>> introduces a couple new concepts like QMP class hinting anonymous IDs.
>> I'm concerned that we'll further complicate the need to support
>> backwards compatibility.
>
> Anonymous IDs must not be considered stable. If you prefer, we could try
> to filter them out for QMP use. Need to check though if there is a good
> location to catch them, but the rule is trivial.
>
> I will also happily drop anonymous IDs again once we have converted all
> devices to stable QOM full path addressing. But that will simply take
> too much time to wait for it I'm afraid.
>
>>
>> Would the command be useful if you couldn't address devices?  If it just
>> dumped the full machine state all at once?  That would at least obviate
>> the need to add anonymous IDs.
>
> Theoretically usable, but extremely unhandy. I would not like so see
> such an interface exposed to users.

What about just taking the device type (iow the savevm section name)?

In most scenarios, it's probably easier for a user and will still only 
have a single match.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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> Jan
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