Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] Support --sysconfdir in configure to specify path to configuration files (v3)

[Anthony Liguori]

On 01/25/2010 03:05 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure about the choice for Windows. Do we want possibly a
> > > > dozen of .conf files all in the same directory as the binaries, or
> > > > maybe it's better to set sysconfdir = ${prefix}/conf,
> > > > confdir=${sysconfdir} on Windows?
> > >
> > > I honestly don't know. What's the normal thing to do with Windows?
> >
> > The registry, I think.
>
> The registry would be used indeed to get the path or to override 
> defaults.  However, what would be the default value (written in the 
> registry by the installer, or used by the program if the registry 
> value is absent)?

ini-style configs are not at all uncommon on Windows.  I also don't 
think it's that uncommon to store executables and config files 
side-by-side in a Program Files directory.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paolo