From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtO4Z-0001kq-E7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:55:31 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtO4Y-0001kT-9U for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:55:31 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50018 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtO4Y-0001kP-6A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:55:30 -0400 Received: from mailout.artfiles.de ([80.252.97.80]:53984) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KtO4X-0006St-Uj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:55:30 -0400 Received: from [87.185.179.156] (helo=[192.168.0.106]) auth=rr@bttr-software.de by mailout.artfiles.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) id 1KtO4P-0007I1-GH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:55:21 +0200 Message-ID: <4901E1D8.2040402@bttr-software.de> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:55:20 +0200 From: Robert Riebisch MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [5524] Fix windows build after migration changes References: <4901D92C.8070800@bttr-software.de> <5d6222a80810240722u7122dbe6i89228c16780136b9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5d6222a80810240722u7122dbe6i89228c16780136b9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Glauber Costa wrote: > This is a bad idea, IMHO. We currently do have an option to allow for > runtime selecting > bios image locations, with the -L switch. The hardcoded version is a > fallback, and for that case, > it's better to be totally explicit about which directory we're picking > things from. This might be OK for other OS's. But on Windows people don't expect such behaviour. People new to QEMU get often confused by using "-L ." or something similar. And what if I installed Windows not on drive C:? (Yes, that's possible.) Or if I have a non-English version? For example, "Program Files" is called "Programme" in German versions of Windows. Robert Riebisch P.S. Could you please repair your line length limit? -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/