Re: [PATCH RFC 00/11] vl: Explore redesign of startup

2021-12-07 Thread Markus Armbruster
Damien Hedde writes: > Hi Markus, > > It looks promising. I did not think we could so "easily" have a new > working startup. Look at this big axe I got! ;) > But I'm not so sure that I understand how we should > progress from here. I neglected to explain this my cover letter

Re: [PATCH RFC 00/11] vl: Explore redesign of startup

2021-12-07 Thread Damien Hedde
Hi Markus, It looks promising. I did not think we could so "easily" have a new working startup. But I'm not so sure that I understand how we should progress from here. I see 3 main parts in this: A. introducing new binary (meson, ...) B. startup api: phase related stuff (maybe more) C. cli to

Re: [PATCH RFC 00/11] vl: Explore redesign of startup

2021-12-02 Thread Markus Armbruster
I fat-fingered Edgar's e-mail address. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[PATCH RFC 00/11] vl: Explore redesign of startup

2021-12-01 Thread Markus Armbruster
These patches are meant to back the memo "Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration" I just posted. Read that first, please. My running example for initial configuration via QMP is cold plug. It works at the end of the series. I'm taking a number of shortcuts: * I hack up qemu-system-FO