Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow setting qemu process name

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:27:50 +0300
Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 07/01/2009 07:19 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> >>> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >>>        
> >>>> [this is a port of a old KVM userland patch I had; Avi back then
> >>>> suggested to submit it to qemu]
> >>>>
> >>>> Set the Linux process name to the name argument specified with
> >>>> "-name". I find
> >>>> this useful to see which guests are taking CPU time in top.
> >>>>          
> >>> This is not a bad idea but it has to be optional and non-default.
> >>> Maybe a new command line option?
> >>>        
> >> -name [title=]blah[,process=foobar]
> >>      
> >
> >   Just a question: do we have a plan on stopping/avoiding adding new
> > command-line options?
> >    
> 
> Not at all.  But it makes sense to group related features into a single 
> command line option IMO.

 Sure, it's seems better to me as well. I'm just curious on what we
are going to do for new features that requires configurable options.

 The command-line we have is already quite big...