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. > Also this means we have a bias against adding new command line options > to current QEMU. [...] -- /kashyap
