QEMU: Understanding QMP, QAPI, and API Documentation with Sphinx

Explore the intricacies of QEMU's API documentation in this 25-minute KVM Forum talk. Delve into the distinctions between QMP and QAPI, unraveling their technical nuances and implications for enterprise distribution features. Gain insights into how new enum values affect the QMP protocol and discover recent developments in the QAPI generator. Learn about the ambitious QMP user documentation overhaul project aimed at producing user-friendly, reliable, and visually appealing resources for both QMP and libvirt users. Understand the impact of these changes on developers implementing new APIs and features. Hear the speaker's call for QEMU maintainers with relevant expertise to contribute to reviewing and refreshing QMP documentation, setting a new gold standard for user-facing API documentation generated by Sphinx.

Solving the Sphinx's Riddle by John Snow