Re: [Qemu-devel] How to reliably start a bare QEMU target to query capabilities via QMP

2012-08-23 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 03:25:38PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > "Daniel P. Berrange" writes: > > > I've been adapting libvirt to use to the various new QMP commands to > > query QEMU's capabilities, instead of the hated -help parsing. Obviously > > the critical part of this is being able to re

Re: [Qemu-devel] How to reliably start a bare QEMU target to query capabilities via QMP

2012-08-22 Thread Anthony Liguori
"Daniel P. Berrange" writes: > I've been adapting libvirt to use to the various new QMP commands to > query QEMU's capabilities, instead of the hated -help parsing. Obviously > the critical part of this is being able to reliably start a bare QEMU > process with no actual guest OS configured (no d

[Qemu-devel] How to reliably start a bare QEMU target to query capabilities via QMP

2012-08-22 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
I've been adapting libvirt to use to the various new QMP commands to query QEMU's capabilities, instead of the hated -help parsing. Obviously the critical part of this is being able to reliably start a bare QEMU process with no actual guest OS configured (no disks, no kernel, etc) and talk to its m