Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt

[Paul Brook]

> On 03/23/2010 09:24 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > We also provide an API for guest creation (the qemu command line).
> 
> As an aside, I'd like to see all command line options have qmp
> equivalents (most of them can be implemented with a 'set' command that
> writes qdev values).  This allows a uniform way to control a guest,
> whether at startup or runtime.  You start with a case, cold-plug a
> motherboard, cpus, memory, disk controllers, and power it on.

The main blocker to this is converting all the devices to qdev. "partial" 
conversions are not sufficient. It's approximately the same problem as a 
machine config file. If you have one then the other should be fairly trivial.
IMO the no_user flag is a bug, and should not exist.

Paul