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From: | Anthony Liguori |
Subject: | [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file |
Date: | Tue, 13 May 2008 18:07:08 -0500 |
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
I think this is pretty useful as-is. I think it also gives us a reasonable way to move forward that will keep everyone pretty happy. Here's a short example: qemu-system-x86_64 -hda ~/images/linux.img -snapshot -vnc :2 Would become `foo.qemu': # Main disk image hda=/home/anthony/images/linux.img # Redirect disk writes to a temporary image snapshot # Make the graphical display available on port 5902 vnc=:2 With: qemu-system-x86_64 -config foo.qemu
One thought I had, is that it would be very nice to break up the -drive file=foo.img,if=scsi syntax within the config file. In general, I'm thinking something like:
[drive] file=foo.img if=scsi or: drive { file=foo.img if=scsi } or even: drive: file=foo.img if=scsiBasically, I'm looking for a syntax for sub-options. This would be useful for -drive or -net but I also think would lay the foundations for specifying a full machine config.
It would get very unwieldy on the command line to have a large number of suboptions but it works reasonably well within a config.
Regards, Anthony Liguori
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