Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] vl.c: add HMP help to machine

[Marcel Apfelbaum]

On 12/15/2014 05:20 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 04:16:02PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > On 10.12.14 14:19, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> > > The help is based on the actual machine properties
> > > exposing only the relevant options.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <address@hidden>
> > Can libvirt make use of this or would it need QMP based exposure?
> Libvirt *never* looks at any -help option anymore. We exclusively use
> the QMP  query-XXXX commands to discover information about QEMU. So
> if its not already possible to query existance of these new machine
> properties via QMP, it'll need work.

Hi Daniel,
I thought we already have something generic that creates temp QOM object,
query its properties and then deletes it.
Who can answer this question? (I didn't get the chance to work with qmp yet.)

Thanks,
Marcel

> Regards,
> Daniel