On Tue 11 Oct 2016 06:32:39 PM CEST, Markus Armbruster wrote: >>> 3) QEMU could advertise that feature to the client. This is probably >>> simpler than trying to figure it out from the API. I guess that's >>> the idea of 'qmp_capabilities'? >> >> I think that was the idea, though it was never used. If we had used >> it, I'm not sure how long the capabilities list would be today. :-) > > QMP capabilities are for changes in the QMP protocol, not for changes > in commands, events and types. The protocol has been good enough so > far, thus no capabilities.
I see. Wouldn't it make sense in general to have a way to ask QEMU whether some certain feature is supported? Berto
