[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] QMP: Update README file

[Luiz Capitulino]

A number of small changes I prefer to do in one shot:

- Add a note about instability
- Add multiple monitors example
- Small clarifications

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden>
---
 QMP/README |   36 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/QMP/README b/QMP/README
index 35a80c7..30a283b 100644
--- a/QMP/README
+++ b/QMP/README
@@ -7,13 +7,17 @@ Introduction
 The QEMU Monitor Protocol (QMP) allows applications to communicate with
 QEMU's Monitor.
 
-QMP is JSON[1] based and has the following features:
+QMP is JSON[1] based and currently has the following features:
 
 - Lightweight, text-based, easy to parse data format
-- Asynchronous events support 
-- Stability
+- Asynchronous messages support (ie. events)
+- Capabilities Negotiation
 
-For more information, please, refer to the following files:
+However, QMP is still under heavy development and is considered an unstable
+protocol. This means that its interface is going to have incompatible changes
+between QEMU releases. We plan to make QMP stable as soon as possible.
+
+For more information on QMP's usage, please, refer to the following files:
 
 o qmp-spec.txt      QEMU Monitor Protocol current specification
 o qmp-commands.txt  QMP supported commands
@@ -29,9 +33,8 @@ o vm-info         Show some information about the Virtual 
Machine
 Usage
 -----
 
-To enable QMP, QEMU has to be started in "control mode". There are
-two ways of doing this, the simplest one is using the the '-qmp'
-command-line option.
+To enable QMP, QEMU has to be started in "control mode". There are two ways of
+doing this, the simplest one is using the the '-qmp' command-line option.
 
 For example:
 
@@ -40,9 +43,17 @@ $ qemu [...] -qmp tcp:localhost:4444,server
 Will start QEMU in control mode, waiting for a client TCP connection
 on localhost port 4444.
 
-It is also possible to use the '-mon' command-line option to have
-more complex combinations. Please, refer to the QEMU's manpage for
-more information.
+To have more complex combinations, like multiple monitors, the '-mon'
+command-line option should be used with the '-chardev' one. For instance, the
+following command-line creates one user monitor on stdio and one QMP monitor
+on localhost port 4444.
+
+$ qemu [...] -chardev stdio,id=mon0 -mon chardev=mon0,mode=readline \
+             -mon chardev=mon0,mode=readline \
+             -chardev socket,id=mon1,host=localhost,port=4444,server \
+             -mon chardev=mon1,mode=control
+
+Please, refer to QEMU's manpage for more information.
 
 Simple Testing
 --------------
@@ -59,8 +70,7 @@ Escape character is '^]'.
 { "execute": "query-version" }
 {"return": {"qemu": "0.12.50", "package": ""}}
 
-Contact
--------
+Homepage
+--------
 
 http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/MonitorProtocol
-Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <address@hidden>
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