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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: introduce query-config-schema
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To: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
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Il 22/04/2013 13:48, Amos Kong ha scritto:
>>> > > Libvirt doesn't have a stable way to know option support
>>> > > detail. This patch introdued a new qmp command to query
>>> > > configuration schema information. hmp command isn't added.
>> > 
>> > Can you introspect QemuOpts instead?  All new options are added there.
> 
> It would be exact to use QemuOpts. I tried to output the vm_config_groups[]
> in qemu-config.c, but it seems not enough. (desc list of -netdev, -drive,
> -device are all empty)

That's expected because they are parsed otherwise, depending on the
backend type.  -chardev is currently working but it's an implementation
detail.

Paolo