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To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: "ehabkost@redhat.com" <ehabkost@redhat.com>, "jan.kiszka@siemens.com" <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, "dlaor@redhat.com" <dlaor@redhat.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Filip Navara <filip.navara@gmail.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>

Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Aren't most QEMU management programs (other than libvirt) scripts?


Probably because we didn't provide an rpc interface before. Chichen and
egg problem here...

 
> Looks to me like "works with libvirt and other management programs"
> implies that you can use it from scripts, because many management
> programs are, in fact, scripts.

Having the possibility of using it from scripts would be nice but I
wouldn't make it a requirement.
With an rpc interface and the right scripting language you can still use
the rpc interface from a very very  short script.