Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] new SDL keyboard shortcuts to start and stop VM

[Glauber Costa]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> Glauber Costa wrote:
>>
>> Why don't we provide a mechanism to make a macro out of a sequence of
>> monitor commands, and let the user assign whatever he wants out of that?
>>
>
> Really?  This seems exceedingly complicated to me.
>
> Redirecting the kernel output to serial and logging is a considerably better
> solution.
To his specific problem, yes.

But this probably don't work so well on some OSes that are less serial friendly.
Also, there are valid use cases in which one may want, for example, to pause
fast if some graphical event happens, which is an extension of what he mentioned
initially.

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