Re: KVM call minutes for 2022-01-25

[Markus Armbruster]

Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> writes:

> Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Today we have the KVM devel call.  We discussed how to create machines
>> from QMP without needing to recompile QEMU.
>>
>>
>> Three different problems:
>> - startup QMP (*)
>>   not discussed today
>> - one binary or two
>>   not discussed today
>> - being able to create machines dynamically.
>>   everybody agrees that we want this. Problem is how.
>> - current greensocs approach
>> - interested for all architectures, they need a couple of them
>>
>> what greensocs have:
>> - python program that is able to read a blob that have a device tree from 
>> the blob
>> - basically the machine type is empty and is configured from there
>> - 100 machines around 400 devices models
>> - Need to do the configuration before the machine construction happens
>> - different hotplug/coldplug
>> - How to describe devices that have multiple connections

Nice demo, by the way!  I assume you're going to post patches.  Feel
free to post as RFC when the work isn't ready for merge, but could use
review, or could make our discussions more productive.

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