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

[Anthony Liguori]

Gerd Hoffmann 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

Works for me.  Would be nice to have a -qmp convenience option too.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori