Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU configuration files

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 08:12:52PM +0200, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My snapshot of the "object based" QEMU configuration system can be found 
>> at http://bellard.org/qemu/patches . I only tried it for x86 targets. It 
>> is not yet in committable state and comments are welcome !
>>
>> General ideas:
>>
>> - User preferences and machine definitions are separated. User 
>> preferences are in ~/.qemu/config for Unix systems. Machine definitions 
>> can override user preferences but I believe it should be the exception.
> 
> I'd like the ability to explicitly not use any user preferences at
> all, rather than having to override each individual setting. This
> would make it easier for me to invoke QEMU from libvirt with a predictable
> configuration that I can guarnetee to be identical on any host regardless
> of how a user my have their preferences setup.

OK.

> It could also be useful to be able to specify a alternative preferences
> file instead of the default $HOME/.qemu/config

Right. I plan to reserve '-f' for that and to use another option (or 
none depending on the file extension) to specify the machine description.

Fabrice.