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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] monitor: add "info capabilities" command
From: |
Mark McLoughlin |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] monitor: add "info capabilities" command |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:58:39 +0000 |
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 12:07 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > Add a monitor command which allows the user (or management tools) to
> > query what features the given qemu binary supports.
> >
> > The output format is ".ini style" and is intended to list:
> >
> > 1) New features - e.g. cache=writethrough
> >
> > 2) Compile time configurables - e.g. built with kqemu support
> >
> > 3) Magic numbers - e.g. the vcpu limit
> >
>
> The monitor is a late interface -- you need this information to
> determine some of the command-line parameters that were used to start
> qemu and the monitor!
Yes, absolutely. Anthony had earlier suggested the monitor command might
be enough because we can do:
echo -e 'info capabilities\nquit' | qemu -S -hda /dev/null -monitor stdio
-vnc none
I would prefer if we also had e.g. qemu -capabilities.
Cheers,
Mark.
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Add "info capabilities" monitor command, Mark McLoughlin, 2008/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Re-factor nic model listing, Mark McLoughlin, 2008/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Add cpu_list() for any targets that don't already have it, Mark McLoughlin, 2008/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Rename xxx_cpu_list() to cpu_xxx_list(), Mark McLoughlin, 2008/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Add new cpu_names() function, Mark McLoughlin, 2008/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] monitor: add "info capabilities" command, Mark McLoughlin, 2008/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 5/5] monitor: add "info capabilities" command, Anthony Liguori, 2008/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 5/5] monitor: add "info capabilities" command, Mark McLoughlin, 2008/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] monitor: add "info capabilities" command, Avi Kivity, 2008/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] monitor: add "info capabilities" command,
Mark McLoughlin <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] monitor: add "info capabilities" command, Avi Kivity, 2008/11/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] monitor: add "info capabilities" command, Daniel P. Berrange, 2008/11/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 4/5] Add new cpu_names() function, Anthony Liguori, 2008/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 4/5] Add new cpu_names() function, Mark McLoughlin, 2008/11/14
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Re-factor nic model listing, Paul Brook, 2008/11/13
[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/5] Re-factor nic model listing, Anthony Liguori, 2008/11/13