[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 03/28] libxl: Provide libxl__dm_support_*
On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 10:00 -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote: > On 01/07/2016 10:13 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-12-22 at 18:44 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > This allows code elsewhere in libxl to find out what options a device > > > model executable supports.ÂÂThis is done by searching the usage > > > message for fixed strings. > > Has anyone (ever, not necessarily a Xen person nor in this context) > > approached upstream QEMU about a machine readable output of some sort? > > > > I know libvirt does something similar to this, but they want to support > > older versions, whereas we at least have the luxury of not caring about > > versions before the point this code lands. > > Since qemu 1.2.0, libvirt has been using the various QMP commands to probe for > qemu capabilities, instead of parsing help output. As in it spawns a qemu specifically to ask the questions and then kills it and starts what it needs _or_ it starts the qemu with minimal command line cfg and then dynamically pokes in the full config via qmp? Ian. > > Regards, > Jim > _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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