Bug 806768

Summary:	-qmp stdio is unusable
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Kevin Wolf <kwolf>
Component:	qemu-kvm	Assignee:	Pavel Hrdina <phrdina>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.3	CC:	acathrow, areis, bsarathy, chayang, juzhang, mkenneth, phrdina, virt-maint
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Fixed In Version:	qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.297.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Kevin Wolf 2012-03-26 08:02:19 UTC

For debugging stuff it's useful to have a QMP monitor on stdio and drive it manually. In RHEL, however, you have to type blindly then. Upstream at least echoes whatever you typed, which makes it a lot more usable, so backporting these patches would be very helpful.

Bonus points for implementing a readline-like interface as we already have it for HMP with -monitor stdio.

Comment 1 Pavel Hrdina 2012-05-30 13:11:09 UTC

I have just sent a patch to upstream. There will be used the readline functionality for qmp on stdio as it is used for hmp on stdio. After it will be approved and committed to upstream, I'll send patch for rhel.

Comment 2 Pavel Hrdina 2012-05-30 18:36:52 UTC

For now into RHEL will be backported the echo functionality from upstream. If the readline mode will be accepted in upstream then we could backport it too.

Comment 8 Chao Yang 2012-12-07 03:44:15 UTC

---Reproduced on qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6.x86_64.
Steps:
1. start a QMP monitor on stdio by:
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -qmp stdio
2. send {"execute":"qmp_capabilities"}

Actual Result:
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -qmp stdio
VNC server running on `::1:5900'
{"QMP": {"version": {"qemu": {"micro": 1, "minor": 12, "major": 0}, "package": "(qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2)"}, "capabilities": []}}
{"return": {}}  <--- without echoing {"execute":"qmp_capabilities"}

---Verified on qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.340.el6.x86_64 with same steps described above.
Actual Result:
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -qmp stdio
VNC server running on `::1:5900'
{"QMP": {"version": {"qemu": {"micro": 1, "minor": 12, "major": 0}, "package": "(qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2)"}, "capabilities": []}}
{"execute":"qmp_capabilities"} <---echoing {"execute":"qmp_capabilities"}
{"return": {}}

---Conclusion:
As per above, this issue has been fixed correctly.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 07:33:21 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0527.html