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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/9] qemu capabilities reporting and
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffman <kraxel@redhat.com>, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Il 19/03/2012 17:31, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>>> It also plumbs the existing command line options through QemuOpts via
>>> a special
>>> 'system' section.  This means that any command line option can be
>>> specified via
>>> readconfig and that the combination of -nodefconfig and -writeconfig
>>> should give
>>> you exactly the same guest in a repeatable fashion.
>>
>> I don't like this because it turns command-line options into ABI.
> 
> It's already an ABI, no?

Right, sorry.  Into configuration file ABI, which is supposed to be the
"cleaner" ABI.

>> Also, it puts there some options for which -writeconfig is actually
>> able to produce a QemuOpts equivalent, such as -monitor.
> 
> That may be a bug depending on what your concern is.  Can you be more
> specific?

If you write "-monitor stdio" with your series, do you get one or two
monitors in the resulting configuration file?

Paolo