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

[Stefan Weil]

Avi Kivity schrieb:
> On 07/01/2009 04:29 PM, Anthony Liguori 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]
>
>> +    } else {
>> +        set_proc_name("qemu", qemu_name);
>>      }
>>
>> I'd rather see qemu be the prefix unconditionally.
>
> Why have a prefix at all?  The user can add it if they're so inclined.
>

I'd prefer a solution without prefix, too.

The SDL caption is another place where the prefix
("QEMU (qemu_name)") is not needed.

Stefan