From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38472) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anRDi-000086-VS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:40:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anRDe-0003Yc-Uq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:40:38 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:43968) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anRDe-0003YY-J5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:40:34 -0400 References: From: Laszlo Ersek Message-ID: <5703C050.5080902@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 15:40:32 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Documentation about qemu config file List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Valerio Pachera Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 04/04/16 16:27, Valerio Pachera wrote: > Hi, I'm interested about the option -writeconfig/-readconfig. > I'm looking for some documentation about the format of the file, the > syntax of all possible options and if there's a library that helps to > read and write this file from external applications. > > I've been writing a sort of a cli to manage guests across different > servers and I wish to manage guest settings by qemu config file. > > Thank you in advance. > (/me checks the timestamp -- no, you didn't send this on April 1st. Okay. It is not a joke then, and the QEMU community is supposed to be open and welcoming. Therefore:) Have you heard of libvirt ? Laszlo