Re: [libvirt] Libvirt debug API

2010-04-12 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 02:16:06PM -0400, Chris Lalancette wrote: > On 04/09/2010 10:27 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >> Raw access to the qemu monitor will be disabled by default; the > >> tag enables the ability to send QMP (or > >> text, if you are using older qemu) messages straight through

Re: [libvirt] Libvirt debug API

2010-04-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/09/2010 07:41 AM, Chris Lalancette wrote: > Caveats: > 3) Application developers will be strongly discouraged from using > this API because of the above 2 issues. To help in this, the > API's will be in a separate library that developers will explicitly > have to link to, and it will have a

Re: [libvirt] Libvirt debug API

2010-04-09 Thread Chris Lalancette
On 04/09/2010 10:27 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > The concept of command line & monitor is something that is QEMU specific > and thus is not suitable for the primary XML schema. IMHO, this needs to be > done as a separate schema, linked in via an XML namespace. For example > > http://libvirt.o

Re: [libvirt] Libvirt debug API

2010-04-09 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:41:39AM -0400, Chris Lalancette wrote: > Hello, > In response to a lot of the talk of qemud lately on qemu-devel, the > libvirt community would like to put forward a proposal to help enable > debug/advanced options when using various hypervisors. The goals of > this

[libvirt] Libvirt debug API

2010-04-09 Thread Chris Lalancette
Hello, In response to a lot of the talk of qemud lately on qemu-devel, the libvirt community would like to put forward a proposal to help enable debug/advanced options when using various hypervisors. The goals of this API are: 1) To enable more rapid access to hypervisor features before pro