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Re: [Qemu-devel] config file support
From: |
Ben Taylor |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] config file support |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:25:12 -0400 |
---- "K. Richard Pixley" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 October 2006 2:42 pm, Chuck Brazie wrote:
> >
> >> Is there any work going on now to add config file support?
> >>
> >> Chuck Brazie
> >> address@hidden
> >>
> > As a random end-user, I really like being able to run qemu without a config
> > file, configuring it entirely on the command line. I'd be highly
> > disappointed if qemu turned into another Wine.
> Except that I never do. Instead, I write a trivial shell script since I
> can never remember the command line options, much less type them in
> consistently.
>
> What's the difference between a shell script to cover qemu and a
> #!/bin/qemu config file? Seems to me they both address roughly the same
> issues with roughly the same considerations. Am I missing any
> significant functionality differences?
There are probably no functional differences. A shell script with a config
file (which is how I wrote one 18 months ago) should be able to handle
almost any kind of config, without adding to code bloat to qemu.
The script I wrote is probably horribly out of date, and has some holes
(and probably some logic flaws yet unfound), but for the most part
replicated most of the things I wanted to do (networking, tun/tap or
redirs, samba etc ) without having to type command lines in excess of 200
characters. Given that I had probably 8-10 qemu guest systems, it was
a huge time saver when it came to starting up a brand new guest.
Ben
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support, Rob Landley, 2006/10/24
- Re[2]: [Qemu-devel] Config file support, Paul Sokolovsky, 2006/10/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support, Paul Brook, 2006/10/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support, Rob Landley, 2006/10/26
- Re[2]: [Qemu-devel] Config file support, Paul Sokolovsky, 2006/10/27
- Re[2]: [Qemu-devel] Config file support, Paul Sokolovsky, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support, Paul Brook, 2006/10/27
- Re[2]: [Qemu-devel] Config file support, Paul Sokolovsky, 2006/10/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support, Rob Landley, 2006/10/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support, David Baird, 2006/10/21
Re: [Qemu-devel] config file support,
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