Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] QMP: Introduce specification file

[Filip Navara]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Avi Kivity<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 06/24/2009 06:57 PM, Filip Navara wrote:
>>
>> Given the fact that we practically have the library for XDR it would
>> be very easy to build Sun RPC server on top of it. So my vote is for
>> SunRPC.
>>
>
> My experience with SunRPC (NFS) has been pretty bad.  It may have been due
> to implementation details, not to the spec itself, but it definitely left a
> bad taste in my mouth.

I have no experience with it, but the specifications looked simple and sane.

> Also, I don't see a SunRPC implementation for
> Python, which (along with similar languages) is an ideal platform for
> controlling qemu.  I'd rather have something more modern.

http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Demo/rpc/
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gaburici/rpc/

Libraries are available for vast amount of languages, including Java and .NET.

Best regards,
Filip Navara