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Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts
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Markus Armbruster |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:06:45 +0200 |
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Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:
> On 30 September 2015 at 09:14, Dr. David Alan Gilbert
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> * Markus Armbruster (address@hidden) wrote:
>>> In my opinion, QEMU should leave them to separate GUI shells, because
>>> doing everything in QEMU distracts from our core mission and we don't
>>> have GUI expertise[*]. One more point: building in the GUI is
>>> problematic when you don't trust the guest, because then you really want
>>> to run QEMU with least privileges.
>>
>> Given that we have a built in GUI then I can see people wanting to expand
>> it.
>
> Right, but where do you draw the line? We clearly don't have the
> active maintainer and review capacity to do anything serious with
> "ui/" (MAINTAINERS lists everything except SPICE as Odd Fixes).
>
> This is why I tend to agree with Markus' opinion here: we should
> provide enough graphical UI to make raw QEMU minimally usable,
> and leave further user-friendliness to other projects which have
> more direct interest in that.
>
> If we had more regular contributors who were actively interested
> in improving our UI layer my opinion might be different.
Or not.
QEMU is a large project. We can do what we do only because we managed
to set up a workable hierarchy of maintainers.
Still, adding more subsystems is not free. Not even if they come with
ready-made, capable maintainers.
I'd rather spend our limited complexity credits on our core mission. If
people come to us with a new target and a commitment to maintain it, we
don't want to say no. That's because targets are core.
If people come to us to make QEMU compete with GUI-providing projects
sitting on top of QEMU, I want us to say no.
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Peter Maydell, 2015/10/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2015/10/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Markus Armbruster, 2015/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2015/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Peter Maydell, 2015/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Programmingkid, 2015/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Kevin Wolf, 2015/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Daniel P. Berrange, 2015/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Programmingkid, 2015/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts,
Markus Armbruster <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Markus Armbruster, 2015/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2015/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Daniel P. Berrange, 2015/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2015/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Daniel P. Berrange, 2015/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Programmingkid, 2015/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Eric Blake, 2015/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts, Programmingkid, 2015/10/08