On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 03:10:09PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Roman Kagan <rka...@virtuozzo.com> writes: > Now I'm confused. According to virtio-balloon-stats.txt, they're > exposed as virtio-balloon properties in QOM. I don't understand how > these are related to query-balloon, nor what a new monitor command > query-balloon-raw would be good for.
Oops, sorry, you're right, I mixed it all up: query-balloon only reports how big the balloon is currently inflated, while the stats are indeed exposed as object properties. So query-balloon-raw makes no sense. > You seem to propose adding stats unknown to QEMU with numeric names. If > there's an authority mapping numbers to meaning, the numbers so mapped > would be suitable as stable interface. However, for the numbers QEMU > knows to be mapped, it surely knows names, too, so limiting the thing to > such numbers would be pointless. > > The only way you can make numbers QEMU doesn't know a stable interface > is declaring the interface a mere transport between guest and management > application. But that's what it currently is. Roman.
