Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH qemu] qmp: Add qom-list-properties to list QOM object properties

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 04:09:06PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> There is already 'device-list-properties' which does most of the job,
> however it does not handle everything returned by qom-list-types such
> as machines as they inherit directly from TYPE_OBJECT and not TYPE_DEVICE.
> 
> This adds a new qom-list-properties command which prints properties
> of a specific class and its instance. It is pretty much a simplified copy
> of the device-list-properties handler.
> 
> Since it creates an object instance, device properties should appear
> in the output as they are copied to QOM properties at the instance_init
> hook.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>

I think the existing qom-list interface does this already.

This won't solve the libvirt problem we were discussing, because it
needs an existing instance of the object.  libvirt wants to know the
machine properties *without* instantiating an instance.

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