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Re: [Qemu-devel] news on the OS X cocoa port


From: Mike Kronenberg
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] news on the OS X cocoa port
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:28:26 +0200
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Joshua Root wrote:

On 21 Jul 2005, Natalia Portillo <address@hidden> wrote:

El 21/07/2005, a las 18:33, Stealth Dave escribió:

On Jul 21, 2005, at 6:46 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

On 7/21/05, Mike Kronenberg <address@hidden> wrote:

Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

I'm thinking of a new way to store the images and saved VMs, too.
Maybe we could make something like vpc: A package with the config,
disk-images and saved VMs, located in ~/Documents/QEMU PCs/


Nice idea.


I would recommend ~/Library/QEMU/PCs as an alternative. OS X tends to store all of its program specific configuration information in the Library folder, which separates it from actual Documents such as disk images, word processor files, images, etc.

Just $0.02 from the Peanut Gallery! :)

- Dave


Yeah but the Library is a obscure place, and VirtualPC for example uses Documents with packages inside and I think that is an elegant way and also will help deal with old users. Also VPC uses XML for hardware description and should be easy to make a XML<->XML virtual machine converter, with along qemu-img will allow people to convert old VPC machines to QEMU ones (will be very useful for me).


Besides which, you're not meant to go creating random folders at the top level of ~/Library/. If you have a single configuration file, it goes in ~/Library/Preferences/, or if you have a collection of things, you create a subfolder in ~/Library/Application Support/ and put them there.

I would prefer ~/Documents/QEMU/ rather than ~/Library/Application Support/QEMU/ since the files stored there will not just be managed internally by the app; the user will know about them.

Cheers,
Josh


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I agree. I used to store the saved VMs in ~/Library/cocoaqemu/. But this is no good solution, for if You want to remove qemu, you lose space on your HD, if you are not familiar with the library. Exchanging preconfigured/saved PC is also a lot easyer, if you have them in a nice package at the top of Your Documents Folder

Mike




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