Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH 2/2] console: add screendump-device qmp cmd

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

>> Something like the attached patch?  Which is just the bare minimum I'll
>> need for screendump.  Basically a one-off bottom half with some monitor
>> infrastructure (job id, error handling).  So it isn't for big jobs, but
>> for small jobs which have to wait for something before they execute
>> (spice-server, guest action, whatever).
> 
> I only skimmed over the patch, but you need QMP commands to cancel
> and to query running jobs.

Sure, can easily go on top, just need to stuff the monitor_jobs into a
list and allow ops on it.  Just want to make sure the direction I'm
heading to is fine.

> Also, please move all this stuff to qmp.c
> and do s/monitor/qmp rename.

Will do.

> Lastly, is it possible to have the block job QMP API on top of this
> new QMP job API?

Don't think so.  As mentioned above this does short-running jobs as
bottom half whereas block jobs are running in coroutines ...

cheers,
  Gerd