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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 18:07:08 -0500
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> I think this is pretty useful as-is.  I think it also gives us a reasonable
> way to move forward that will keep everyone pretty happy.
> 
> Here's a short example:
> 
> qemu-system-x86_64 -hda ~/images/linux.img -snapshot -vnc :2
> 
> Would become `foo.qemu':
> 
>  # Main disk image
>  hda=/home/anthony/images/linux.img
> 
>  # Redirect disk writes to a temporary image
>  snapshot
> 
>  # Make the graphical display available on port 5902
>  vnc=:2
> 
> With:
> 
> qemu-system-x86_64 -config foo.qemu

One thought I had, is that it would be very nice to break up the -drive 
file=foo.img,if=scsi syntax within the config file.  In general, I'm 
thinking something like:

[drive]
file=foo.img
if=scsi

or:

drive {
   file=foo.img
   if=scsi
}

or even:

drive:
   file=foo.img
   if=scsi

Basically, I'm looking for a syntax for sub-options.  This would be 
useful for -drive or -net but I also think would lay the foundations for 
specifying a full machine config.

It would get very unwieldy on the command line to have a large number of 
suboptions but it works reasonably well within a config.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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