Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] make screendump an async command

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:06:58 +0200
Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hmm, while thinking about it:  There is another screendump change in the
> pipeline: allow screen dumps from *any* device.  So, I think this is
> actually a very good reason to implement a new screendump command as I
> think we can kill two birds with one stone then:
> 
> First we can add a new parameter to specify the device we want dump
> from.  And second we are not bound to the behavior of the existing
> screendump command.  So we could simply send out a qmp event as
> completion (or error) notification.

That's how we agreed on doing async commands, and looks like a good
solution to me.