From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HNpF7-0002UR-PS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:51:09 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HNpF7-0002Tl-3g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:51:09 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HNpF6-0002Ti-UC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:51:08 -0500 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([82.166.9.18]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HNpF6-0000V2-Dz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:51:08 -0500 Message-ID: <45EAB217.8080708@qumranet.com> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:48:39 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks References: <45E70CCF.40800@bull.net> <45EA06EE.3000509@codemonkey.ws> <45EA9122.6000207@qumranet.com> <200703041144.00936.paul@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <200703041144.00936.paul@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Brook Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Paul Brook wrote: >> Out of curiosity, why? If the options are store in some database, as is >> likely, surely it is easier to generate a longish command line than to >> generate a unique name for a file, remove it if it already exists, write >> out the data, launch qemu, and clean up the file later? And for >> migration, you have to regenerate it, since some options may have >> changed (cdrom media). >> > > You're going to start hitting commandline length limits fairly rapidly > (Windows in particular has a fairly low limit). > > Well, at list on linux, the limit is sane (1024 or 10240?). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function