On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 06:11:50PM +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:37:06AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 03:50:58PM +0100, Luc Michel wrote: > > [...] > > > > This would hopefully allow for simple machines creation. We would then be > > > able to use either the command line or the `-readconfig` option to create > > > the machine. > > > > > > Note that we are not planning to use QMP/HMP for now. From our > > > understanding, a `device_add` request is always considered as hot-plug, > > > which is not what we want here. > > > > > > Please tell us what do you think about this plan. Any feedback is > > > appreciated. Then we can discuss the details of how to do this properly. > > > > There's a general desire amongst QEMU maintainers to move to a world > > where QAPI is used for describing everything. In this vision, eventually > > all current command line options would be replaced with QMP commands > > and QAPI objects specs. > > > > In this world -readconfig is likely to be deleted. > > In that case, I hope the above intention / direction will be documented > somewhere more clearly. In the past I ran into at least a couple of > companies that use QEMU in production and heavily rely on '-readconfig', > despite knowing some of its shortcomings. There might be others out > there.
Such a change would go through the deprecation process as normal so they would have 2 releases prior warning. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
