From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MqaTK-0001yJ-7a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:38:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MqaTE-0001vl-N7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:38:00 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54965 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MqaTE-0001ve-Js for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:37:56 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:41977) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MqaTE-0001q7-5t for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:37:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: QEMU Monitor Protocol git tree References: <20090921224430.610da97b@doriath> From: Markus Armbruster Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:37:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20090921224430.610da97b@doriath> (Luiz Capitulino's message of "Mon\, 21 Sep 2009 22\:44\:30 -0300") Message-ID: <87my4l1e4e.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Luiz Capitulino Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, avi@redhat.com Luiz Capitulino writes: [...] > 2.2 Server Greeting > ------------------- > > Right when connected the Server will issue a greeting message, which signals > that the connection has been successfully established and that the Server is > waiting for commands. > > The format is: > > { "QEMU": json-string, "QMP": json-string, "capabilities": json-array } > > Where, > > - The "QEMU" member contains the QEMU version > - The "QMP" member contains the QMP version > - The "capabilities" member specify the availability of features beyond the > baseline specification What about capability negotiation? Server offers capabilities, client can accept or decline them. [...]