Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt

[Paul Brook]

> I can't quite see what such a libqemu would buy us compared to straight
> QMP.
> 
> Talking QMP should be easy, provided you got a suitable JSON library.

I agree. My undesranding is this was one of the large motivations behind using 
JSON: It's a common protocol that already has convenient bindings in most 
languages.  If it's hard[1] for third parties to bind QMP to their favourite 
language/framework then IMHO we've done it wrong.

Paul

[1] Hard compared to any other sane RPC mechanism. Some languages make 
everything hard :-)