Re: Making QEMU easier for management tools and applications

[Gerd Hoffmann]

> > Consider chardev-add.  Example:
> > 
> >     {"execute": "chardev-add",
> >      "arguments": {"id": "bar",
> >                    "backend": {"type": "file",
> >                                "data": {"out": "/tmp/bar.log"}}}}

> Well, first of all: Do we need compatibility?

Well, libvirt uses that, so yes.  Or at least support both old and new
(chardev-add-v2?) in parallel for while to give libvirt time to switch
over.

cheers,
  Gerd