Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New Migration Protocol using Visitor Interface

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 11:05:02AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 10/03/2011 10:45 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >>BTW, putting this info properly into migration stats would probably
> >>be pretty useful.
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Anthony Liguori
> >
> >Problem is adding anything to monitor makes me worry
> >about future compatibility so much I usually just give up.
> >IMO we really need a namespace for in-development experimental
> >commands, like "unsupported-XXX", this would belong.
> 
> Or just make all of QMP unsupported across any given version.  I'm
> not kidding about that actually.
> 
> If we document what the protocol is for any given version, then a
> layer like libvirt can deal with providing a consistent interface.

Once distros ship qemu, people will use it. Once they use it
in some way for long, it becomes the supposted interface.
No one reads documentation, obviously :) - do you expect
people to re-read qemu documentation *with every release*?

> 
> I often wonder who we're trying to preserve compatibility for.  Part
> of libvirt's mission statement is providing a stable API so why not
> leverage that mission and get us out of the compatibility business.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anthony Liguori

you can't force everyone to use libvirt.
Part of QMP mission statement was a stable interface.
If it's not that I don't know what it's for.

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