On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:04 PM, mdroth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 06:14:59PM -0200, Erlon Cruz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I needed to run an external program in a guest machine. Once this must be
> > triggered by the host, I first thought in qemu-ga.
> > Is that possible? In QEMU help page and in the code I couldn't find such
> > capability.
> > So Im thinking In to implement a new GA QMP command that can run generic
> > programs in the guest. It would be receive/return something like this:
> >
> > {"execute":"execvp",
> > "arguments":{"command":"/bin/ls","cmdargs":"-la","timeout":20}}
> > {"return": {"status": "0", "stdout": "aGVsbG8gd29ybGQhCg==", "stderr":
> ""}}
> >
> > Any thoughts/ideas about this?
>
> I sent an RFC for this a while back:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-12/msg00722.html
>
> At the time the interface seemed a bit tedious, but AFAIK it's the only
> kind of approach that'll work for longer-running commands with lots of
> output, so I might just clean it up and re-spin the series.
>
>
Why you say tedious? The interface seems to have a very wide usage for
several scenarios and fits perfectly for what we are trying to do. Why it
didn't go upstream? I think it would be nice to roll that up again.
Erlon
>
> > Kind Regards,
> > Erlon
>
