Re: [PATCH 0/4] Arguments to skip boot menu and to hide bios output

Daniel P. Berrange
2009-02-09T08:44:53Z

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 01:20:40PM -0500, Cory Fields wrote:
> Thanks for the direction, will submit patches to the appropriate places.
>
> I messed around with extending the -boot syntax as you suggested,
> but I think boot c,verbose=off,prompt=off is a little cumbersome.
> boot c,quiet,noprompt seems cleaner. Thoughts?

The rest of QEMU is converging on using the same name=val syntax for
optional args, even for boolean args. Thus I think we should follow
that pattern here too. If we pick sensible defaults, so these flags
don't need to be specified most of the time, then its not a big deal

Daniel
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