Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Avi,
>
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>  I think we should still provide the ability to set the most common 
>>>  options via the command line.  I'm also fine with specifying single 
>>>  options on the command line.  I suspect though that being able to 
>>> do  -config - is more useful for management tools than building 
>>> large  strings of command line options.
>>
>> 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).
>
> I think Anthony was suggesting that "-config -" would read the config 
> from standard input, avoiding the need for any temporary file, and 
> also avoiding any command-line length limits on any platforms (Win32 
> is unlikely to accept as much as Linux).
>

Ah, I missed the '-'.  Thanks.  Indeed it's quite easy to feed a config 
file from memory into qemu.


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