Re: Making QEMU easier for management tools and applications

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* John Snow (address@hidden) wrote:
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> 
> On 1/24/20 1:30 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > However, I caution that too many people think that QMP has all the type
> > of diagnostic stuff people want - it's just way too hard and beuracratic
> > to add a simple diagnostic command to QMP, when you just want to add
> > something to print some diagnostics out for your corner of qemu.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow, do you mean bureaucratic in contrast to... HMP?

I mean, someone who adds a QMP command is expected to be a lot more
careful about the long term stability and proper structures etc etc.
Where for HMP, if someone wants to add a command that's useful to the
diagnostics of their part of QEMU and doesn't break anything else, then
fine.

Dave

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