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diff --git a/qemu-monitor.hx b/qemu-monitor.hx index da7b796de..595d362ae 100644 --- a/qemu-monitor.hx +++ b/qemu-monitor.hx @@ -35,7 +35,29 @@ information on the Server command and response formats. NOTE: This document is temporary and will be replaced soon. -1. Regular Commands +1. Stability Considerations +=========================== + +The current QMP command set (described in this file) may be useful for a +number of use cases, however it's limited and several commands have bad +defined semantics, specially with regard to command completion. + +These problems are going to be solved incrementally in the next QEMU releases +and we're going to establish a deprecation policy for badly defined commands. + +If you're planning to adopt QMP, please observe the following: + + 1. The deprecation policy will take efect and be documented soon, please + check the documentation of each used command as soon as a new release of + QEMU is available + + 2. DO NOT rely on anything which is not explicit documented + + 3. Errors, in special, are not documented. Applications should NOT check + for specific errors classes or data (it's strongly recommended to only + check for the "error" key) + +2. Regular Commands =================== Server's responses in the examples below are always a success response, please @@ -1605,7 +1627,7 @@ HXCOMM This is required for the QMP documentation layout. SQMP -2. Query Commands +3. Query Commands ================= EQMP @@ -1636,13 +1658,25 @@ Show QEMU version. Return a json-object with the following information: -- "qemu": QEMU's version (json-string) +- "qemu": A json-object containing three integer values: + - "major": QEMU's major version (json-int) + - "minor": QEMU's minor version (json-int) + - "micro": QEMU's micro version (json-int) - "package": package's version (json-string) Example: -> { "execute": "query-version" } -<- { "return": { "qemu": "0.11.50", "package": "" } } +<- { + "return":{ + "qemu":{ + "major":0, + "minor":11, + "micro":5 + }, + "package":"" + } + } EQMP |