Re: [PATCH] Kvm: Qemu: save nvram

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 03:01:20PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:25:49AM +0800, Zhang, Yang wrote:
> >  
> >>This patch to save the nvram. It save the nvram by specify the arg of 
> >>-name.And the saved file named by the arg. If do not specify the arg,
> >>it will not save the nvram
> >>    
> >
> >I think we might be better off having an explicit command line arg for 
> >nvram
> >path rather than hardcoding the directory, because there may well be times
> >where you want to have nvram saved, but don't want to specify -name, and
> >vica-verca. 
> >
> >  -nvram foo.data
> >
> >could prepend a default directory of $localstatedir/lib/qemu/nvram, where
> >$localstatedir  is set from 'configure' script, or
> >
> >  -nvram /some/path/foo.data
> >
> >would use the explicit path given.
> >  
> 
> I prefer current directory if relative path is given.  Since we 
> encourage running qemu as an unprivileged user, and we don't want a 
> world-writable directory, each user will have to provide a private 
> storage location.

Fine by me - avoids needing to embed any path in QEMU code at all then

Daniel
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