Re: [Qemu-devel] news on the OS X cocoa port

[Joshua Root]

On 21 Jul 2005, Natalia Portillo <address@hidden> wrote:
> El 21/07/2005, a las 18:33, Stealth Dave escribió:
>
> > On Jul 21, 2005, at 6:46 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> >
> > > On 7/21/05, Mike Kronenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm thinking of a new way to store the images and saved VMs, too.
> > > > Maybe we could make something like vpc: A package with the config,
> > > > disk-images and saved VMs, located in ~/Documents/QEMU PCs/
> > >
> > > Nice idea.
> >
> > I would recommend ~/Library/QEMU/PCs as an 
> > alternative.  OS X tends  to store all of its 
> > program specific configuration information in 
> > the Library folder, which separates it from 
> > actual Documents such  as disk images, word 
> > processor files, images, etc.
> >
> > Just $0.02 from the Peanut Gallery! :)
> >
> > - Dave
>
> Yeah but the Library is a obscure place, and 
> VirtualPC for example  uses Documents with 
> packages inside and I think that is an elegant 
> way and also will help deal with old users.
> Also VPC uses XML for hardware description and 
> should be easy to make  a XML<->XML virtual 
> machine converter, with along qemu-img will 
> allow  people to convert old VPC machines to 
> QEMU ones (will be very useful  for me).

Besides which, you're not meant to go creating 
random folders at the top level of ~/Library/. If 
you have a single configuration file, it goes in 
~/Library/Preferences/, or if you have a 
collection of things, you create a subfolder in 
~/Library/Application Support/ and put them there.

I would prefer ~/Documents/QEMU/ rather than 
~/Library/Application Support/QEMU/ since the 
files stored there will not just be managed 
internally by the app; the user will know about 
them.

Cheers,
Josh