Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@linaro.org) wrote:
> On 29 September 2015 at 14:11, Dr. David Alan Gilbert
> <dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> > * Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@linaro.org) wrote:
> >> On 28 September 2015 at 20:43, Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Sep 28, 2015, at 3:29 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >> >> You didn't mention you're talking about a *GUI* feature.
> >> >
> >> > I'm thinking it would be easier to send in the patch rather than talk about
> >> > what this feature could be.
> >>
> >> I think Markus and I are trying to save you that effort by
> >> pointing out that this is a VM management layer feature,
> >> not a core QEMU feature.
> >
> > OK, so I'm going to agree with Programmingkid here.
> > I think this would be a useful feature to have in QEMU; I've
> > got gratuitous hacks in some of my test scripts that work
> > around it not being there.
> >
> > I think there are two possible things, both of which seem fairly
> > easy:
> >   1) Add a -chardev from file that works in this case
> >      (I don't think the current chardev file works does it?)
> >
> >   2) A 'source' like command.
> 
> Yeah, these are both plausible. Neither of them are GUI features,
> though...

Well, I don't use the GTK gui; I can see that those who do
might want features in it.

Dave

> 
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