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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 11/11] QMP: Command-line flag to enable control


From: Luiz Capitulino
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 11/11] QMP: Command-line flag to enable control mode
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:27:02 -0300

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:06:14 +0200
Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:

> Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:03:09 +0200
> > Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> >> Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> >>> This change adds a flag called 'control' to the already existing
> >>> '-monitor' command-line option. This flag can be used to enable
> >>> control mode.
> >>>
> >>> Its syntax is:
> >>>
> >>> qemu [...] -monitor control,<device>
> >>>
> >>> Where <device> is a chardev (excluding 'vc', for obvious reasons).
> >>>
> >>> For example:
> >>>
> >>> $ qemu [...] -monitor control,tcp:localhost:4444,server
> >>>
> >>> Will run QEMU in control mode, waiting for a client TCP connection
> >>> on localhost port 4444.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden>
> >> At this chance, I would vote for "[PATCH 12/11] Allow multiple -monitor
> >> instances". I think Anthony posted such a patch before. Now we should
> >> really include this as your extension may block the stand-alone -monitor
> >> switch for the control channel, preventing to additionally set up one
> >> (or more) for debugging purposes.
> > 
> >  Do you really think that this is needed for the first version? I would
> > rather prefer to concentrate on protocol specification and command
> > porting, which will require a lot of effort.
> 
> You may postpone it if it's too much work, but please have a look at
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.libvirt/12895 first as I
> think it should be easy to integrate.

 I will have a look before deciding, if it doesn't seem that complicated
I will add the patch.

 Thanks for the pointer!




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