[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 11/11] QMP: Command-line flag to enable control mode

[Jan Kiszka]

Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:03:09 +0200
> Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>>> This change adds a flag called 'control' to the already existing
>>> '-monitor' command-line option. This flag can be used to enable
>>> control mode.
>>>
>>> Its syntax is:
>>>
>>> qemu [...] -monitor control,<device>
>>>
>>> Where <device> is a chardev (excluding 'vc', for obvious reasons).
>>>
>>> For example:
>>>
>>> $ qemu [...] -monitor control,tcp:localhost:4444,server
>>>
>>> Will run QEMU in control mode, waiting for a client TCP connection
>>> on localhost port 4444.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden>
>> At this chance, I would vote for "[PATCH 12/11] Allow multiple -monitor
>> instances". I think Anthony posted such a patch before. Now we should
>> really include this as your extension may block the stand-alone -monitor
>> switch for the control channel, preventing to additionally set up one
>> (or more) for debugging purposes.
> 
>  Do you really think that this is needed for the first version? I would
> rather prefer to concentrate on protocol specification and command
> porting, which will require a lot of effort.

You may postpone it if it's too much work, but please have a look at
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.libvirt/12895 first as I
think it should be easy to integrate.

Jan

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