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From: Yonit Halperin <yhalperi@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spice: increase the verbosity of spice
 section in "qemu --help"
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To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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On 08/21/2012 03:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/21/2012 04:54 AM, Yonit Halperin wrote:
>> Added all spice options to the help string. This can be used by libvirt
>> to determine which spice related features are supported by qemu.
>
> For older released, this is true; but for future versions of qemu,
> libvirt would much rather learn this information from QMP commands than
> from scraping -help output.  Can we get at all of this information from QMP?
>
No, we don't have qmp commands for any of spice config options. I don't 
think it should be in the scope of this patch.