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

[Stefano Stabellini]

Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Aren't most QEMU management programs (other than libvirt) scripts?


Probably because we didn't provide an rpc interface before. Chichen and
egg problem here...

 
> Looks to me like "works with libvirt and other management programs"
> implies that you can use it from scripts, because many management
> programs are, in fact, scripts.

Having the possibility of using it from scripts would be nice but I
wouldn't make it a requirement.
With an rpc interface and the right scripting language you can still use
the rpc interface from a very very  short script.