Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> writes: [...] > = Ways to provide machine-friendly initial configuration = > > Two ways to provide machine-friendly initial configuration on par with > QMP have been proposed: > > 1. Extend QMP > > Machines use the CLI only to configure a QMP socket. The remainder > of the CLI becomes human-only, with much relaxed compatibility rules. > > 2. QAPIfy the CLI > > Provide a machine-friendly CLI based on QAPI and JSON. The current > CLI becomes human-only, with much relaxed compatibility rules. > > Aside: I looked into cleaning up the human-only CLI at the same time, > but the need to maintain compatibility until the transition to the > machine-friendly CLI is complete makes this hard. It needs to be > cleaned up, though. More on that below.
Forgot to write down: we're talking not just about qemu-system-FOO, but any executable with a non-trivial command line for use by machines. This includes qemu-img, future qemu-storage-daemon, possibly qemu-nbd and more. Of these, qemu-storage-daemon will have a QMP monitor. The others don't have one so far. [...]
