Re: [Qemu-devel] qgraph

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 10/06/19 18:12, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 10.06.19 um 15:52 schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
>> On 10/06/19 15:28, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>> So if we want a new QMP operation, the most sense would probably make
>>> where-can-I-attach-type(foo) returning a list of QOM paths, showing only
>>> the first free slot per bus. That would allow a more efficient lookup
>>> implementation inside QEMU than needing to check each slot[n] property
>>> via qom-get after discovering it with qom-list.
>>
>> Note that what Natalia is seeking is an introspection mechanism to be
>> used _before_ creating a virtual machine though.
> 
> QMP implied creating a virtual machine though.

Yes, but you can start QEMU with -M none and just invoke QOM
introspection commands.

> This then goes back to the long-discussed topic of not doing recursive
> realized=true when starting halted with -s but deferring that to the
> cont operation. I doubt that's been implemented in the meantime?

Nope.

Paolo