Section "QGA Synchronization" specifies that sending "a raw 0xFF
sentinel byte" makes the server "reset its state and discard all
pending data prior to the sentinel." What actually happens there is a
lexical error, which will produce one or more error responses.
Moreover, it's not specific to QGA.
Create new section "Forcing the JSON parser into known-good state" to
document the technique properly. Rewrite section "QGA
Synchronization" to document just the other direction, i.e. command
guest-sync-delimited.
Section "Protocol Specification" mentions "synchronization bytes
(documented below)". Delete that.
While there, fix it not to claim '"Server" is QEMU itself', but
'"Server" is either QEMU or the QEMU Guest Agent'.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180823164025.12553-2-armbru@redhat.com>
Commit cf869d5317 "qmp: support out-of-band (oob) execution" added a
general mechanism for command-independent arguments just for an
out-of-band flag:
The "control" key is introduced to store this extra flag. "control"
field is used to store arguments that are shared by all the commands,
rather than command specific arguments. Let "run-oob" be the first.
However, it failed to reject unknown members of "control". For
instance, in QMP command
{"execute": "query-name", "id": 42, "control": {"crap": true}}
"crap" gets silently ignored.
Instead of fixing this, revert the general "control" mechanism
(because YAGNI), and do it the way I initially proposed, with key
"exec-oob". Simpler code, simpler interface.
An out-of-band command
{"execute": "migrate-pause", "id": 42, "control": {"run-oob": true}}
becomes
{"exec-oob": "migrate-pause", "id": 42}
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180703085358.13941-13-armbru@redhat.com>
[Commit message typo fixed]
Commit cf869d5317 "qmp: support out-of-band (oob) execution" made
"id" mandatory for all commands when the client accepted capability
"oob". This is rather onerous when you play with QMP by hand, and
unnecessarily so: only out-of-band commands need an ID for reliable
matching of response to command.
Revert that part of commit cf869d5317 for now, but have documentation
advise on the need to use "id" with out-of-band commands.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180703085358.13941-8-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
OOB documentation is spread over qmp-spec.txt sections 2.2.1
Capabilities and 2.3 Issuing Commands. The amount of detail is a bit
distracting there. Move the meat of the matter to new section 2.3.1
Out of band execution.
Throw in a few other improvements while there:
* 2.2 Server Greeting: Drop advice to search entire capabilities
array; should be obvious.
* 3. QMP Examples
- 3.1 Server Greeting: Update greeting to the one we expect for the
release. Now shows capability "oob". Update qmp-intro.txt
likewise.
- 3.2 Capabilities negotiation: Show client accepting capability
"oob".
- 3.7 Out-of-band execution: New.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180703085358.13941-4-armbru@redhat.com>
[Whitespace tidied up]
Affects documentation and a few error messages.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180703085358.13941-2-armbru@redhat.com>
Update both the developer and spec for the new QMP OOB (Out-Of-Band)
command.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180309090006.10018-2-peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
[eblake: grammar tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
This is for the future interoperability & management guide. It includes
the QAPI docs, including the automatically generated ones, other socket
protocols (vhost-user, VNC), and the qcow2 file format.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Markus Armbruster
Peter Xu
Paolo Bonzini