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From: | Philip Boulain |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4][RFC] Add logic to QEMU to read command line options from qcow2 images |
Date: | Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:28:25 +0100 |
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
Philip Boulain wrote:I think the magic should just be "#!". Whatever you put as the QEMU executable is your choice. Separating the args to the next line actually does make it pretty portable.That should probably be "#!/usr/bin/env qemu", or something similar...
Not really; you'd still have to use the editing tool (qemu-img?) to prep it for your particular QEMU binary location on that particular host. But, yes: being able to set arbitrary binaries is essential. Using env is probably a good /default/, though.
Yes, I think that another argument should be required as Dan suggested although I'd like something more explicit like "-read-args-from-image". In the case where the image was directly executable, it would be embedded as part of the interpreter arguments.
This works, so long as qemu disregards "-read-args-from-image" unless it's being called as an interpreter. Otherwise, you've put the lock and the key in the same place. :)
If an image says: #!/whatever/qemu -read-args-from-image -curious-and-interesting-flags This should use those flags: $ ./image.qcow2 And this shouldn't, because you don't need to have made it executable: $ qemu -hda image.qcow2 (But this would:) $ qemu -read-args-from-image -hda image.qcow2(Side thought: presumably, we're assuming that the in-file and on-command-line arguments are unioned, ideally with the latter taking precidence if mutually exclusive.)
This also doesn't apply outside of UNIX-like environments, e.g. Windows...I think this is covered by requiring the additional argument.
Agreed. LionsPhil
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