[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 11/11] QMP: Command-line flag to enable control mode

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:03:09 +0200
Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:

> Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > This change adds a flag called 'control' to the already existing
> > '-monitor' command-line option. This flag can be used to enable
> > control mode.
> > 
> > Its syntax is:
> > 
> > qemu [...] -monitor control,<device>
> > 
> > Where <device> is a chardev (excluding 'vc', for obvious reasons).
> > 
> > For example:
> > 
> > $ qemu [...] -monitor control,tcp:localhost:4444,server
> > 
> > Will run QEMU in control mode, waiting for a client TCP connection
> > on localhost port 4444.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden>
> 
> At this chance, I would vote for "[PATCH 12/11] Allow multiple -monitor
> instances". I think Anthony posted such a patch before. Now we should
> really include this as your extension may block the stand-alone -monitor
> switch for the control channel, preventing to additionally set up one
> (or more) for debugging purposes.

 Do you really think that this is needed for the first version? I would
rather prefer to concentrate on protocol specification and command
porting, which will require a lot of effort.