Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU configuration files

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:52:03PM +0200, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 08:12:52PM +0200, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>My snapshot of the "object based" QEMU configuration system can be found 
> >>at http://bellard.org/qemu/patches . I only tried it for x86 targets. It 
> >>is not yet in committable state and comments are welcome !
> >>
> >>General ideas:
> >>
> >>- User preferences and machine definitions are separated. User 
> >>preferences are in ~/.qemu/config for Unix systems. Machine definitions 
> >>can override user preferences but I believe it should be the exception.
> >
> >I'd like the ability to explicitly not use any user preferences at
> >all, rather than having to override each individual setting. This
> >would make it easier for me to invoke QEMU from libvirt with a predictable
> >configuration that I can guarnetee to be identical on any host regardless
> >of how a user my have their preferences setup.
> 
> OK.
> 
> >It could also be useful to be able to specify a alternative preferences
> >file instead of the default $HOME/.qemu/config
> 
> Right. I plan to reserve '-f' for that and to use another option (or 
> none depending on the file extension) to specify the machine description.

AH, with that I could use 'qemu -f /dev/zero' to stop the user preferences
being loaded I imagine.


Daniel
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