[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Split machine creation from the main loop

[Juan Quintela]

Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 02/23/2011 05:00 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:
>> Anthony Liguori<address@hidden>  wrote:
>>    
>>> The goal is to enable the monitor to run independently of whether the 
>>> machine
>>> has been created such that the monitor can be used to specify all of the
>>> parameters for machine initialization.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori<address@hidden>
>>>      
>> I agree that it is one step in the right direction, but we are still
>> calling qemu_machine_init() before calling the main_loop().
>>
>> What is the plan from here?
>>    
>
> 1) Decouple QMP from qemu_machine_init().  This really requires the
> introduction of the new QAPI server that exists outside of the chardev
> infrastructure since chardevs are currently initialized in
> qemu_machine_init().
>
> 2) Make qemu_machine_init() take no parameters and just reference
> global state.

Any good idea how that global state is going to be stored?

I just want to be able to launch a qemu on a different machine and
migrate the "configuration" to it, for doing that, I really need what
values are different from default or anything like that.  So as you can
see, I am very interested on that work.

Later, Juan.