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

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/25/2009 04:07 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > Looks to me like "works with libvirt and other management programs"
> > implies that you can use it from scripts, because many management
> > programs are, in fact, scripts.
> >      
>
> Having the possibility of using it from scripts would be nice but I
> wouldn't make it a requirement.
> With an rpc interface and the right scripting language you can still use
> the rpc interface from a very very  short script.
>    

I'd go further and make shell script support a non-goal.  Maybe the 
majority of qemu control programs are scripts, but only a tiny minority 
of VMs are controlled by shell scripts.  It is nearly impossible to 
write a correct nontrivial program in bash; and scripts will be slow due 
to the need to constantly fork/exec/connect.

Serious management programs will be written in real languages, and 
that's what we should optimize for.

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