Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

[Peter Maydell]

On 29 September 2015 at 14:11, Dr. David Alan Gilbert
<address@hidden> wrote:
> * Peter Maydell (address@hidden) wrote:
>> On 28 September 2015 at 20:43, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sep 28, 2015, at 3:29 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> >> You didn't mention you're talking about a *GUI* feature.
>> >
>> > I'm thinking it would be easier to send in the patch rather than talk about
>> > what this feature could be.
>>
>> I think Markus and I are trying to save you that effort by
>> pointing out that this is a VM management layer feature,
>> not a core QEMU feature.
>
> OK, so I'm going to agree with Programmingkid here.
> I think this would be a useful feature to have in QEMU; I've
> got gratuitous hacks in some of my test scripts that work
> around it not being there.
>
> I think there are two possible things, both of which seem fairly
> easy:
>   1) Add a -chardev from file that works in this case
>      (I don't think the current chardev file works does it?)
>
>   2) A 'source' like command.

Yeah, these are both plausible. Neither of them are GUI features,
though...

-- PMM