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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:42:55 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] QMP: Introduce specification file
From: Filip Navara <filip.navara@gmail.com>
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: ehabkost@redhat.com, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, dlaor@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/24/2009 06:57 PM, Filip Navara wrote:
>>
>> Given the fact that we practically have the library for XDR it would
>> be very easy to build Sun RPC server on top of it. So my vote is for
>> SunRPC.
>>
>
> My experience with SunRPC (NFS) has been pretty bad. =A0It may have been =
due
> to implementation details, not to the spec itself, but it definitely left=
 a
> bad taste in my mouth.

I have no experience with it, but the specifications looked simple and sane=
.

>=A0Also, I don't see a SunRPC implementation for
> Python, which (along with similar languages) is an ideal platform for
> controlling qemu. =A0I'd rather have something more modern.

http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Demo/rpc/
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gaburici/rpc/

Libraries are available for vast amount of languages, including Java and .N=
ET.

Best regards,
Filip Navara