[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/2] QMP: Introduce the documentation for query-qdm

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 16:34:22 -0300
Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <address@hidden> wrote:

> Possible values for "type" are defined in the patch on the
> qdev_property_type_to_string() function. To spot them in the current
> code, hw/qdev.c:77:
> 
> enum PropertyType {
>     PROP_TYPE_UNSPEC = 0,
>     PROP_TYPE_UINT8,
>     PROP_TYPE_UINT16,
>     PROP_TYPE_UINT32,
>     PROP_TYPE_INT32,
>     PROP_TYPE_UINT64,
>     PROP_TYPE_TADDR,
>     PROP_TYPE_MACADDR,
>     PROP_TYPE_DRIVE,
>     PROP_TYPE_CHR,
>     PROP_TYPE_STRING,
>     PROP_TYPE_NETDEV,
>     PROP_TYPE_VLAN,
>     PROP_TYPE_PTR,
>     PROP_TYPE_BIT,
> };
> 
> So it is a mix of json-(string|integer|boolean). It seams to me that a
> device_add using QMP will use just use strings. Need to confirm that.

There are integers too.

Daniel, can you clarify how libvirt is going to use this member?

Maybe we could have something like this:

 "type": { "qdev": "macaddr", "qmp": "string" }