Re: Single system binary & Dynamic machine model (KVM developers conference call 2022-12-13)

[Alex Bennée]

Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> writes:

> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On 12/12/22 00:41, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> In the last years we had few discussions on "simplifying" QEMU
>>> (system emulation / virtualization), in particular for the
>>> "management layer".
>>> Some of us are interested in having QEMU able to dynamically create
>>> machine models. Mark Burton's current approach is via a Python script
>>> which generates QMP commands. This is just another case of "management
>>> layer".
>>> Various problems have been raised regarding the current limitations
>>> of
>>> QEMU's APIs. We'd like to remember / get a broader idea on these limits
>>> and look at some ideas / proposals which have been discussed / posted
>>> on this list.
>>> Feel free to complete your thoughts on this public etherpad:
>>> https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/qemu-emulation-bof%402022-12-13
>>> Topic I remember which can be good starters:
>>> - Current limitations of QAPI (& QMP) model (Markus Armbruster)
>>> - Adding a new qemu-runtime-$TARGET / QMP-only binary without
>>> today's
>>>    limitations (Daniel P. Berrangé & Paolo Bonzini)
>>> - Problem with x-exit-preconfig, reworking MachinePhaseInit state
>>>    machine (Paolo Bonzini)
>>> Markus / Daniel / Paolo expressed their ideas on the list (the
>>> historical threads are referenced in the etherpad) so reading the
>>> relevant threads before the call will help to get in the topic.
>>> These people don't have to be in the call, but if they can attend
>>> that would be very nice :)
>>> The call will be Tuesday, December 13 at 3pm CET on this Bluejeans
>>> link:
>>> http://bluejeans.com/quintela
>> We moved the call here:
>>
>> https://teams.microsoft.com/_#/pre-join-calling/19:meeting_MjU2NDhkOGYtOGY5ZC00MzRjLWJjNjgtYWI2ODQxZGExMWNj@thread.v2
>
> Hi
>
> First of all I am sorry that my calendar/alarm system failed me.

I tried starting as a moderator myself but it needed a login. Is the
pass code personal to you or the meeting? Would it be worth adding the
pass code to the meeting details for the future.

> Once thold that, I have been unable to go from that link to a meet room:
> - on android phone with chrome
> - on android phone with firefox
> - on linux host with firefox (and teams installed)
> - on linux host with chrome (and teams installed)
>
> As everybody says, it got going for indirection to indirection and at
> the end (if lucky) I ended on the teams app without a room name/id.

Mine worked OK with Linux Chrome in web only mode. As a fallback someone
did post:

  https://play.workadventu.re/@/qemu/main/hq

a while back. More traditionally:

  https://meet.jit.si/

allows you to create meetings without sign-up.

>
> Later, Juan.


-- 
Alex Bennée