Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add "info capabilities" monitor command

[Jamie Lokier]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > While we're at it, a section describing the monitor's capabilities so
> > we don't have to parse the _monitor's_ "help" output....  Oh, there I
> > go bike-shedding again :-)
> 
> Well, if "info capabilities" isn't implemented, simply having it fail is
> fine.

Sure, but there are other monitor commands, and sub-options to those
commands, which come and go depending on QEMU version and development
branch.  It would be good to describe those in a capabilities section,
as the only other option is trying the commands and discovering if
sub-options are supported that way.  It's possible to send TAB to the
monitor to get the output of command line completions sometimes, but
that's quite an ugly thing for a management tool to have to do.

-- Jamie