Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration

[Mark Burton]

> On 14 Dec 2021, at 14:05, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 09:22:14PM +0100, Mark Burton wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 13 Dec 2021, at 18:59, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> …. we no longer have to solve everything
>>> Ourselves. 
>> 
>> I support this sentiment.
>> 
>> Lets re-factor the code so people can build what they need using an API.
>> Actually, ‘QEMU’ only need support the existing CLI, and provide a suitable 
>> internal API.
>> If that API was relatively stable, that would help those (few) who maintain 
>> a different startup mechanism (but its only a ’nice to have’). (Making that 
>> convenient, as Paolo has show, would also be ’nice to have’).
> 
> To be clear I do strongly believe that the QEMU project needs
> to deliver the higher level simplified interface too. I just
> want that higher level interface to be flexible enough to
> let end users expand on what it offers, without having to
> write C code nor having to switch entirely to the low level
> interface like we do today.
> 
> IOW, QEMU needs to deliver more than just a low level building
> block API.

Why?
Clearly it would be nice if “higher level” interfaceS existed in the world. 
Clearly QEMU could provide one, two, or many. But, why do you think QEMU ‘must’ 
provide them?

Cheers
Mark.


> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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