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diff --git a/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell b/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell index 65280d29d1..fa39bf0d7b 100755 --- a/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell +++ b/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell @@ -29,6 +29,41 @@ # (QEMU) device_add driver=e1000 id=net1 # {u'return': {}} # (QEMU) +# +# key=value pairs also support Python or JSON object literal subset notations, +# without spaces. Dictionaries/objects {} are supported as are arrays []. +# +# example-command arg-name1={'key':'value','obj'={'prop':"value"}} +# +# Both JSON and Python formatting should work, including both styles of +# string literal quotes. Both paradigms of literal values should work, +# including null/true/false for JSON and None/True/False for Python. +# +# +# Transactions have the following multi-line format: +# +# transaction( +# action-name1 [ arg-name1=arg1 ] ... [arg-nameN=argN ] +# ... +# action-nameN [ arg-name1=arg1 ] ... [arg-nameN=argN ] +# ) +# +# One line transactions are also supported: +# +# transaction( action-name1 ... ) +# +# For example: +# +# (QEMU) transaction( +# TRANS> block-dirty-bitmap-add node=drive0 name=bitmap1 +# TRANS> block-dirty-bitmap-clear node=drive0 name=bitmap0 +# TRANS> ) +# {"return": {}} +# (QEMU) +# +# Use the -v and -p options to activate the verbose and pretty-print options, +# which will echo back the properly formatted JSON-compliant QMP that is being +# sent to QEMU, which is useful for debugging and documentation generation. import qmp import json |