Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 03/25/2010 10:16 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:14:24PM +0000, Vincent Hanquez wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:07:20PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>> >>>> I agree apps shouldn't use it for RPC, but admins using the >>>> interactive user >>>> monitor are just as deserving of stable commands& args. >>>> >>> I think, once QMP is completely there, admins would be better using >>> a qemu-cmd >>> that's just serialise it's command line arguments into a JSON command. >>> >> Then, after a qemu-cmd is introduced, we should mark the user monitor >> deprecated >> along with a specific date/release its future for removal. >> > > I'm not sure. The human monitor has some features that are not > appropriate for QMP. For instance, the ability to deal with formula > input and some commands meant to add debugging. > > I guess you could do that in qemu-cmd but I don't see a compelling > reason to. As I mentioned before, I'd love to see the qemu binary (incl. monitor interface) being implemented as a pure QMP user. Then libvirt and friends can be 100% that they can achieve everything using QMP because we don't live in the same address space anymore and can't pull tricks. Alex -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list