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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Zhang, Yang" <yang.zhang@intel.com>,
	"kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org" <kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"avi@readhat.com" <avi@readhat.com>,
	"Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kvm: Qemu: save nvram
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:01:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <493531A0.2040501@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081202103145.GC25599@redhat.com>

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.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-02 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-02  2:25 [PATCH] Kvm: Qemu: save nvram Zhang, Yang
2008-12-02  5:27 ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-02 10:31 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-02 13:01   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-12-02 13:10     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-03  6:02       ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-12-03  6:12         ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-16  9:21           ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-17 18:39             ` Charles Duffy
2008-12-18  5:30               ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-12-18 18:00                 ` Charles Duffy
2008-12-19  1:56                   ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-24  5:27                     ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-24  5:34                       ` Zhang, Yang

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