Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/19] RFC: Reporting QEMU binary capabilities

2010-06-25 Thread Markus Armbruster
"Daniel P. Berrange" writes: [...] > The main problem encountered with this patch series is the > split between argv and config parameters. The qemu-config.c > file provides the information is a good data format, allowing > programatic access to the list of parameters for each config > option (eg

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/19] RFC: Reporting QEMU binary capabilities

2010-06-09 Thread Luiz Capitulino
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:07:14 -0500 Anthony Liguori wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > On 06/07/2010 09:42 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > As everyone here agrees, having management apps parse -help output > > to determine the QEMU capabilities is not at all nice, because it > > is an ill-defined& fragil

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/19] RFC: Reporting QEMU binary capabilities

2010-06-07 Thread Anthony Liguori
Hi Daniel, On 06/07/2010 09:42 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: As everyone here agrees, having management apps parse -help output to determine the QEMU capabilities is not at all nice, because it is an ill-defined& fragile data format. Looking more broadly these same issues apply to all the other

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/19] RFC: Reporting QEMU binary capabilities

2010-06-07 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 06/07/2010 10:10 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 09:58:11AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 06/07/2010 09:42 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: As everyone here agrees, having management apps parse -help output to determine the QEMU capabilities is not at all nice

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/19] RFC: Reporting QEMU binary capabilities

2010-06-07 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 06/07/2010 09:42 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: As everyone here agrees, having management apps parse -help output to determine the QEMU capabilities is not at all nice, because it is an ill-defined& fragile data format. Looking more broadly these same issues apply to all the other command lin

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/19] RFC: Reporting QEMU binary capabilities

2010-06-07 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 09:58:11AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 06/07/2010 09:42 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >As everyone here agrees, having management apps parse -help output > >to determine the QEMU capabilities is not at all nice, because it > >is an ill-defined& fragile data format.

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/19] RFC: Reporting QEMU binary capabilities

2010-06-07 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
As everyone here agrees, having management apps parse -help output to determine the QEMU capabilities is not at all nice, because it is an ill-defined & fragile data format. Looking more broadly these same issues apply to all the other command line options that accept a '?' flag for querying capabi