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Re: [Qemu-devel] Staging update (0.12 pending freeze)


From: Luiz Capitulino
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Staging update (0.12 pending freeze)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:48:32 -0200

On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:17:51 +0100
Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 12/04/09 01:04, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Problem is, control is not a property of the character device. To
> > express this in a consistent way with everything else, you would have to
> > make this QemuOpts-like so it would look like
> >
> > -monitor control,device=tcp:localhost:444,server
> >
> > But so far, the monitor, serial, parallel, etc. devices don't take
> > QemuOpts.
>  >
> > OTH, having:
> >
> > -qmp tcp:localhost:444,server
> 
> I think we should create a new option for monitor configuration, like this:
> 
>    -mon mode={control,readline},chardev=<name>,more-options-here
> 
> So you'll create a qmp monitor socket this way:
> 
>    -chardev socket,path=/tmp/qmpsock,id=qmp,server,nowait
>    -mon mode=control,chardev=qmp
> 
> Then the -monitor switch will be legacy/convinience syntax for a 
> readline monitor with auto-created chardev named 'monitor<nr>'.

 I like this.

 I believe it wouldn't be difficult for you to rebase your series
on top of staging with an incremental patch for QMP, right?




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