Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Introduce a -libvirt-caps flag as a stop-gap

2010-07-28 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 07/28/2010 04:53 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:20:55PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 07/27/2010 12:00 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: Yup. You'll need to decide up front if you want to probe for a feature when it's introduced and have something added to

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Introduce a -libvirt-caps flag as a stop-gap

2010-07-28 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:20:55PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 07/27/2010 12:00 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >>Yup. You'll need to decide up front if you want to probe for a feature > >>when it's introduced and have something added to capabilities. > >> > >>This is simple though. A few

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Introduce a -libvirt-caps flag as a stop-gap

2010-07-27 Thread Avi Kivity
On 07/27/2010 07:38 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: I'm going to revert the -help changes for 0.13 so that old versions of libvirt work but not for master. What is the goal here? Make qemu.git explicitly be unusable via libvirt? -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this si

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Introduce a -libvirt-caps flag as a stop-gap

2010-07-27 Thread Chris Wright
* Anthony Liguori (anth...@codemonkey.ws) wrote: > Here are the possible things we can do: > > 1) merge -libvirt-caps as an intermediate solution, stop caring > about -help changes, when full caps are introduced, stop updating > -libvirt-caps > > 2) don't merge -libvirt-caps, stop caring about -h

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Introduce a -libvirt-caps flag as a stop-gap

2010-07-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 07/27/2010 12:00 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: Yup. You'll need to decide up front if you want to probe for a feature when it's introduced and have something added to capabilities. This is simple though. A few weeks before 0.14 is released, go through the change log, and anything that looks

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Introduce a -libvirt-caps flag as a stop-gap

2010-07-27 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:38:04AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 07/27/2010 11:09 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:55:03AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > >>Today libvirt parses -help output to attempt to enumerate capabilities. > >>This > >>is very broken a

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Introduce a -libvirt-caps flag as a stop-gap

2010-07-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 07/27/2010 11:09 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:55:03AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: Today libvirt parses -help output to attempt to enumerate capabilities. This is very broken and has led to multiple failures. Since libvirt is an important management interfac

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Introduce a -libvirt-caps flag as a stop-gap

2010-07-27 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:55:03AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Today libvirt parses -help output to attempt to enumerate capabilities. This > is very broken and has led to multiple failures. Since libvirt is an > important > management interface to QEMU, we need to do a better job giving the