Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH 0/5] console: qom-ify & extent screendump monitor command

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 04/22/13 19:23, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/22/2013 11:03 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> It'd be *much* nicer to return the screenshot data via the QMP session
>>> instead of writing it to a file.  So let's take the opportunity to fix
>>> the command.
> 
> That's a lot of data to be encoding into JSON.
> 
>>
>> That's debatable... the "nicest" way could also be to pass a pipe fd and
>> retrieve the dump from that fd.  That's quite easy to do with fdsets.
>> The choice is between implementing SCM_RIGHTS sendfd and a base64 decoder.
> 
> If the existing filename can already be used with fdsets,

It can't.  Easily fixable though.  Question is how libvirt then can
figure fdsets for screendumps do work ...

cheers,
  Gerd