On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 01:38:31PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> writes: > > > This introduces a Monitor QOM object, with MonitorHMP and > > MonitorQMP subclasses. This is the bare minimum conversion > > of just the type declarations and replacing g_new/g_free > > with object_new/object_unref. The Monitor base class is > > abstract since only the HMP/QMP variants should ever be > > created. > > > > When created through the existing QemuOpts interfaces, the > > new internal QOM object will get assigned a dynamic ID with > > the format "compat_monitorNNN" which is the historical > > QemuOpts ID naming pattern. > > Uh, sometimes the name isn't "compat_monitorNNN". > > I'm not sure whether talking about QemuOpts helps or hurts here. Let me > try not to talk about it: > > This introduces abstract QOM type "monitor", with concrete subtypes > "monitor-hmp" and "monitor-qmp". This is the bare minimum conversion > of just the type declarations and replacing g_new/g_free with > object_new/object_unref. > > Command line option -monitor now creates a monitor-hmp object > /objects/compat_monitorNNN in addition to the character device > /chardevs/compat_monitorNNN. NNN counts up from zero. > > Exception: -monitor chardev:ID creates a monitor-hmp object > /objects/ID, and does not create a character device. > > -qmp and -qmp-pretty work the same, except they create a monitor-qmp > object. > > -mon now creates a monitor-hmp or monitor-qmp object /objects/ID if > the option argument provides an ID, else /objects/compat_monitorNNN. > > If you want to make the connection to QemuOpts ID, add > > Note that the object's name in /objects/ matches the QemuOpts ID when > it exists. The only case where it doesn't exist is -mon without ID. > > Finally, point to what's coming: > > A future patch will make "monitor-hmp" and "monitor-qmp" work with > -object and object-add.
Ok, that's all fine with me. > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> > With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com ~~ https://hachyderm.io/@berrange :| |: https://libvirt.org ~~ https://entangle-photo.org :| |: https://pixelfed.art/berrange ~~ https://fstop138.berrange.com :|
