On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 01:01:25AM +1100, Justin Clift wrote: > On 12/01/2011, at 12:39 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:21:26PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote: > >> So, it means the newer qemu-kvm (of RHEL) doesn't support sdl > >> anymore. Didn't send the patch to Red Hat internal list, > >> as the patch won't conflict with upstream. > >> > >> IMHO it's not reasonable that we have "sdl" xml in domain > >> config, but no according command line of qemu, and pretend > >> everything is fine. > >> > >> Any good idea? Thanks > > > > qemu needs to support capabilities ... > > > > Been discussed with upstream qemu many times and no movement > > on it. > > Is it feasible (or even useful) to create a library or utility called > "qemu-capabilities", who's sole purpose is to interrogate a qemu > installation and then provide us a list of its capabilities? This doesn't really solve anything. libvirt already has such a "library", it is simply part of oura internal API. The problem is that QEMU itself needs to expose information that does not currently exist clearly anywhere. Daniel -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list