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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 v2 4/5] qmp-shell: Accept QMP command a
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Eduardo Habkost |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 v2 4/5] qmp-shell: Accept QMP command as argument |
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Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:05:45 -0300 |
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Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) |
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 08:25:41AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:03:53PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >> Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> writes:
> >>
> >> Suggest to insert here:
> >>
> >> If additional arguments QMP-COMMAND ARG=VAL... are given, run just
> >> that QMP command instead of the REPL.
> >>
> >> Question: is this limited to simple arguments? If no, how would I write
> >> an object argument? For instance, how would I do
> >>
> >> { "execute": "blockdev-add", "arguments": { "node-name": "foo",
> >> "driver": "nbd", "server": { "type": "inet", "host": "localhost", "port":
> >> "12345" } } }
> >>
> >> ?
> >
> > Exactly the same way you would write it when running qmp-shell in
> > interactive mode. e.g.:
> >
> > $ ./scripts/qmp/qmp-shell /tmp/qmp blockdev-add driver=qcow2
> > node-name=node-E 'file={"driver":"file","filename":"/path/to/file.qcow2"}'
>
> I see.
>
> The QEMU command line uses dotted key syntax instead.
You mean -blockdev, or is there another way to send QMP commands
to QEMU that I'm not aware of?
>
> To be honest, the less qmp-shell is used, the happier I am.
What people would use instead of it?
> Would you
> like to serve as its sub-maintainer?
I'd be glad to.
--
Eduardo
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 v2 1/5] qmp-shell: Use optparse module, Daniel P. Berrange, 2017/08/15
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 v2 2/5] qmp-shell: Pass split cmdargs to __build_cmd(), Eduardo Habkost, 2017/08/08
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 v2 3/5] qmp-shell: execute_cmdargs() method, Eduardo Habkost, 2017/08/08
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 v2 4/5] qmp-shell: Accept QMP command as argument, Eduardo Habkost, 2017/08/08
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 v2 5/5] Remove scripts/qmp/qmp, Eduardo Habkost, 2017/08/08