Re: [kvm-devel] Re: Storing command line options in images

Laurent Vivier
2007-08-14T07:46:22Z

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Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Jorge Lucángeli Obes wrote:
> [snip]
>> When I read Avi's TODO, I basically thought about getting rid of the
>> long command lines I had to store in scripts. I wanted to write that
>> command line once, and then forgetting about it, until I needed to
>> change it.
>
> Instead of inventing great and wonderfully complicated schemes, the
> most sensible way I can think of is to recycle a feature which is now
> implemented in the GNU toolchain, and apparently stems from Windows:
>
> qemu @qemu.cfg
>
> where qemu.cfg is a file which contains the command line arguments.
> (This is also low-maintenance, as it allows to re-use the existing

IMHO, it should be implemented at the shell level, not qemu level, like "*" is.

Laurent
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