This series implements the necessary commands to implements danpb's idea to
remove -help parsing in libvirt. We would introduce all of these commands in
1.2 and then change the -help output starting in 1.3.
Here is Dan's plan from a previous thread:
<danpb>
Basically I'd sum up my new idea as "just use QMP".
* No new command line arguments like -capabilities
* libvirt invokes something like
$QEMUBINARY -qmp CHARDEV -nodefault -nodefconfig -nographics
* libvirt then runs a number of QMP commands to find out
what it needs to know. I'd expect the following existing
commands would be used
- query-version - already supported
- query-commands - already supported
- query-events - already supported
- query-kvm - already supported
- qom-{list,list-types,get} - already supported
- query-spice/vnc - already supported
And add the following new commands
- query-devices - new, -device ?, and/or -device NAME,? data
in QMP
- query-machines - new, -M ? in QMP
- query-cpu-types - new, -cpu ? in QMP
The above would take care of probably 50% of the current libvirt
capabilities probing, including a portion of the -help stuff. Then
there is all the rest of the crap we detect from the -help. We could
just take the view, that "as of 1.2", we assume everything we previously
detected is just available by default, and thus don't need to probe
it. For stuff that is QOM based, I expect we'll be able to detect new
features in the future using the qom-XXX monitor commands. For stuff
that is non-qdev, and non-qom, libvirt can just do a plain version
number check, unless we decide there is specific info worth exposing
via other new 'query-XXX' monitor commands.
Basically I'd sum up my new idea as "just use QMP".
* No new command line arguments like -capabilities
* libvirt invokes something like
$QEMUBINARY -qmp CHARDEV -nodefault -nodefconfig -nographics
* libvirt then runs a number of QMP commands to find out
what it needs to know. I'd expect the following existing
commands would be used
- query-version - already supported
- query-commands - already supported
- query-events - already supported
- query-kvm - already supported
- qom-{list,list-types,get} - already supported
- query-spice/vnc - already supported
And add the following new commands
- query-devices - new, -device ?, and/or -device NAME,? data
in QMP
- query-machines - new, -M ? in QMP
- query-cpu-types - new, -cpu ? in QMP
The above would take care of probably 50% of the current libvirt
capabilities probing, including a portion of the -help stuff. Then
there is all the rest of the crap we detect from the -help. We could
just take the view, that "as of 1.2", we assume everything we previously
detected is just available by default, and thus don't need to probe
it. For stuff that is QOM based, I expect we'll be able to detect new
features in the future using the qom-XXX monitor commands. For stuff
that is non-qdev, and non-qom, libvirt can just do a plain version
number check, unless we decide there is specific info worth exposing
via other new 'query-XXX' monitor commands.
</danpb>
The one thing to note is that I didn't add a query-devices command because you
can already do:
qmp query-devices --implements=device --abstract=False
To get the equivalent output of -device ?. Instead, I added a command to list
specific properties of a device which is the equivalent of -device FOO,?
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