diff --git a/Makefile.objs b/Makefile.objs
index 092f314..7e82587 100644
--- a/Makefile.objs
+++ b/Makefile.objs
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ libcacard-y = cac.o event.o vcard.o vreader.o vcard_emul_nss.o vcard_emul_type.o
 # qapi
 
 qapi-nested-y = qapi-visit-core.o qmp-input-visitor.o qmp-output-visitor.o qapi-dealloc-visitor.o
-qapi-nested-y += qmp-registry.o
+qapi-nested-y += qmp-registry.o qmp-dispatch.o
 qapi-obj-y = $(addprefix qapi/, $(qapi-nested-y))
 
 vl.o: QEMU_CFLAGS+=$(GPROF_CFLAGS)
diff --git a/qapi/qmp-core.h b/qapi/qmp-core.h
index 99e929f..f1c26e4 100644
--- a/qapi/qmp-core.h
+++ b/qapi/qmp-core.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ typedef struct QmpCommand
 
 void qmp_register_command(const char *name, QmpCommandFunc *fn);
 QmpCommand *qmp_find_command(const char *name);
+QObject *qmp_dispatch(QObject *request);
 
 #endif
 
diff --git a/qapi/qmp-dispatch.c b/qapi/qmp-dispatch.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5bf41ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qapi/qmp-dispatch.c
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+#include "qemu-objects.h"
+#include "qapi/qmp-core.h"
+#include "json-parser.h"
+#include "error.h"
+#include "error_int.h"
+#include "qerror.h"
+
+static QObject *qmp_dispatch_err(QObject *request, Error **errp)
+{
+    const char *command;
+    QDict *args, *dict;
+    QmpCommand *cmd;
+    QObject *ret = NULL;
+
+    if (qobject_type(request) != QTYPE_QDICT) {
+        error_set(errp, QERR_JSON_PARSE_ERROR, "request is not a dictionary");
+        goto out;
+    }
+
+    dict = qobject_to_qdict(request);
+    if (!qdict_haskey(dict, "execute")) {
+        error_set(errp, QERR_JSON_PARSE_ERROR, "no execute key");
+        goto out;
+    }
+
+    command = qdict_get_str(dict, "execute");
+    cmd = qmp_find_command(command);
+    if (cmd == NULL) {
+        error_set(errp, QERR_COMMAND_NOT_FOUND, command);
+        goto out;
+    }
+
+    if (!qdict_haskey(dict, "arguments")) {
+        args = qdict_new();
+    } else {
+        args = qdict_get_qdict(dict, "arguments");
+        QINCREF(args);
+    }
+
+    switch (cmd->type) {
+    case QCT_NORMAL:
+        cmd->fn(args, &ret, errp);
+        if (!error_is_set(errp) && ret == NULL) {
+            ret = QOBJECT(qdict_new());
+        }
+        break;
+    }
+
+    QDECREF(args);
+
+out:
+
+    return ret;
+}
+
+QObject *qmp_dispatch(QObject *request)
+{
+    Error *err = NULL;
+    QObject *ret;
+    QDict *rsp;
+
+    ret = qmp_dispatch_err(request, &err);
+
+    rsp = qdict_new();
+    if (err) {
+        qdict_put_obj(rsp, "error", error_get_qobject(err));
+        error_free(err);
+    } else if (ret) {
+        qdict_put_obj(rsp, "return", ret);
+    } else {
+        QDECREF(rsp);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    return QOBJECT(rsp);
+}