Re: Redesign of QEMU startup & initial configuration

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 12/13/21 16:19, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> I think it's more often just three: the long one that can do everything,
> the short one that can do simple things (and doesn't tell you anything
> about the long one), and the bad one you shouldn't use.
>
> > If we're going to have a good CLI, it would ideally only have
> > one way to do each given task.
> Ideally, the long one plus good defaults suffices.

That's hard to do, because the short one typically creates both a 
backend and a frontend.  It should be possible to macro-expand into the 
long one + a -machine property, but that's extremely tedious work.

Paolo

> When we must also have a short one, it should macro-expand into long
> one(s), and the user should be able to see the expansion.