Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] console: add hw_screen_dump_async

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/05/2012 11:20 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/05/2012 04:33 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > async in QEMU doesn't mean "generate a QMP event when you're done".
> > It should mean execute this closure when you finish (function pointer
> > + opaque).
> >
> > The QMP event should be dispatched from the closure such that the
> > screendump code doesn't have to have a direct dependency on QMP.
>
> What about using the parallel execution facility of qmp?  It's silly to
> duplicate every command X with X-async and X-COMPLETED.

We need to switch over to QAPI to get there.  We're pretty close to being there. 
 Luiz, about how long do you think before we get there?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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