Re: [PATCH] qrap: Support JSON syntax for -device

[Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>]

[Cc: Laine]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 03:08:47 -0700
Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 10:19:43AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > For context, qrap will finally become useless once this patchset by
> > Laurent:
> >   https://patchew.org/QEMU/20221021090922.170074-1-lvivier@redhat.com/
> >
> > lands in qemu -- that should happen soon.
> >
> > However, we'll need to keep it around for a little longer, until an
> > updated version of qemu reaches distributions, and, after that, still
> > give a bit of time to users  
> 
> In addition to QEMU, we also need libvirt to support passt natively.
> 
> I believe there's ongoing work for that as well,

Yes, I'm currently working on this topic with Laine (the patch in
contrib/libvirt is using the qemu interface I implemented in
contrib/qemu, which is not what we'll have in qemu eventually).

> but until that lands (and makes its way to distros) projects like
> KubeVirt are going to be relying on qrap.

Right, it probably makes no sense to force KubeVirt to adopt this in
two steps (passing qemu specific options first, and then switch to the
new configuration model in libvirt), so we'll need to wait for that as
well.

-- 
Stefano