[Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Allowing QEMU to directly execute a directory (and storing command line options in it)

[Jorge Lucángeli Obes]

On 8/31/07, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> It makes little sense to pass a directory when you can pass a config
> file and assume that the directory the config file is in is the CWD.
>
> For instance, if vm.cfg contained just the command line arguments, you
> could have:
>
> MyImage/vm.cfg:        -hda disk0.qcow -m 512
> MyImage/disk0.qcow:    <disk image>
>
> And then do:
>
> qemu -c MyImage/vm.cfg

I thought about this when coding, and it's true. Maybe we could just
leave a new explicit config file option. I insist on making this as
simple as possible, that's why I  chose to use the config file as a
"written-down" command line.

If this were the case, we could remove the restriction of having the
config file refer only to images on the same directory, as the use of
the config file would be explicit. Thoughts?

Cheers,
Jorge