Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>   
>> There has been an awful lot of discussion about a configuration file with
>> almost no general agreement except that one is strongly desired.
>>     
>
> One thing I'd like to see is the ability to include one config file
> inside another.
>   

The astute reader will notice that my patch already includes that 
functionality :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> The use case for this is to have something like:
>
>     my-machine-base.conf
>
> which contains base configuration stuff. I might then have a couple
> of other configs which include the above file:
>
>    my-machine-use-vde-networking.conf
>    my-machine-standard-networking.conf
>
> The base config might not even be a valid config by itself, but is
> only useful when included with one of these other configs.
>
> Comments?
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
>