Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] QMP: Introduce specification file

[James]

> It depends what you mean by 'dbus' here. I don't think managing QEMU over
> the dbus bus provides the right architecture - I don't think you want
> every QEMU appearing on the bus.  5B You could do direct peer-to-peer comms
> so you're just using libdbus for message encapsulation / processing, but
> there's not really much above XDR. XDR is nice because its a portable
> library that works on any OS, including OS-X and WIndows, and solely
> concerns itself with data encoding, not data transport.  

That leaves the rendezvous, and security issues to be re-invented wheels,
you could use SUNRPC and XDR. That has an excellent IDL. 

I don't see why you wouldn't want it on the 'bus', and more than you'd want it
bound to a tcp port on localhost. It would make things a lot simpler: something
like a little command line utility to connect a CDROM or ISO image to a Qemu
instance which would be identified by some uuid or name would be very easy to
implement. 

James.