Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New Monitor command: 'info netdevices'

[Markus Armbruster]

Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden> writes:

>  Hi there,
>
>  Miguel is working on converting 'info network' to QMP, but turns out that 
> it's
> been quite difficult to maintain the exact same output.
>
>  The main problem seems to be the usage of the 'info_str' string, which some
> drivers (like tap, xen, vde, socket, etc) write arbitrary data into it. Then,
> it's difficult to maintain the same output when we store the same data in
> a qdict.
>
>  Another problem is wrt to maintaining the same ordering of devices, while
> there's a solution for this one, the code gets ugly.
>
>  We have to choices:
>
> 1. Convert it, anyway. Try our best not to break the output, even knowing
>    this is likely to happen
>
> 2. Play it safe and introduce a new 'info netdevices' command, which
>    just print one device per line
>
>  I think 2 is better.

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3. Convert it anyway.  Clean up the mess.  Change the output.

> PS: As far as I know, 'info network' is not used by libvirt.