Bug 643055 (QMPSelfDescr)

Summary:	Use QMP self-description feature
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.1	CC:	berrange, bsarathy, eblake, gcosta, xen-maint, yoyzhang
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	557939, 1283895
Bug Blocks:	644849

Description Luiz Capitulino 2010-10-14 14:39:28 UTC

Description of problem:

In the near future QMP will have self-description support, which basically means that it will be able to dump all protocol related information such as command names, arguments, types, errors, etc.

Libvirt will have to use that feature so that it fully offers back compatibility support.

Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2010-10-18 16:16:14 UTC

I don't see any need to use this feature at this point in time, since there are no backwards incompatible changes in QMP that we need to detect.

Comment 3 Luiz Capitulino 2010-10-18 16:54:02 UTC

Yes, this is a future feature, likely to be included only in rhel7.0.

We have bug 557939 for QMP, so I figured that it would be good to have a BZ for libvirt too, so that you can track progress and update libvirt when time comes.

Not sure if this is the best way to handle future features.

Comment 4 Daniel Berrangé 2011-01-10 12:16:43 UTC

Closing because there's no actionable work todo be done. libvirt upstream will make use of QMP self-description, as & when a particular need arises. No obvious need is visible at this time.