Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU Dbus support - a proposal management API

[Andreas Färber]

Am 11.12.2007 um 11:29 schrieb Laurent Vivier:

> Le mardi 11 décembre 2007 à 11:20 +0100, Andreas Färber a écrit :
> > Am 11.12.2007 um 10:23 schrieb Laurent Vivier:
> >
> > > perhaps the DBUS interface can replace the command line monitor ?
> > > We have just to move the command line interface to a client speaking
> > > to
> > > qemu through the DBUS interface.
> >
> > That would work for few platforms only!
>
> Linux, windows, freebsd, netbsd, macos...
> And all platforms with a working GNOME (Solaris, HPUX, AIX, I guess  
> too)

(Recent) Linux and Solaris certainly yes.
However, Windows is a fork in progress, and Mac OS X does not ship D- 
Bus to my knowledge. Requiring installation of such a system-level  
component, likely requiring administrative priviledges, does not seem  
like a good idea to me. I am okay with using it where it is available  
though.

Andreas