[Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] Réf. : Re: [PATCH][RFC] A llowing QEMU to directly executeadirectory (and storing command line options in it)

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 10:13:11PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> I think passing only the directory name is better because it can be like a
> "black box" : the user don't have to know how it is inside. And it is much
> more simple to use "qemu my_pc" than "qemu -c my_pc/config".

If you need this incredible 'simplicity', a 1 line shell script can easily
provide it for you;

    $ cat myqemu
    #!/bin/sh
    exec qemu -c $1/config

One of the great strengths of QEMU is its predictability - it may have a
huge number of command line args, but this is exactly what gives QEMU such
power & utility. It makes it very straightforward to build applications
around QEMU, and ensure it behaviours in a 100% reliable & predictable manner.
We should be wary of putting policy & heuristics into QEMU to turn it into
a 'black box' because that will compromise the use cases at which it currently
excels. A simple '-c' arg which takes a path to a config file is more than
sufficient, without needing heuristics to look for magical named files in
directories.

Dan.
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