From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc6sI-0007Me-Dt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:58:22 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc6sG-0007MG-Sb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:58:21 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc6sG-0007MD-K7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:58:20 -0400 Received: from [65.74.133.4] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Gc6sG-0005o9-Ju for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:58:20 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] config file support Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:58:16 +0100 References: <453D00CD.6010307@palmsource.com> <200610231639.00717.rob@landley.net> In-Reply-To: <200610231639.00717.rob@landley.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610232158.16806.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > > Seems to me they both address roughly the same > > issues with roughly the same considerations. > > Using a *.PIF file is the Windows way. Using the command line is Linux. There's plenty of prior art for using config files on unix/linux systems. I'm not saying we should remove all commandline options. However qemu is growing sufficiently many user-adjustable knobs that manipulating them all solely via the commandline gets unwieldy. IMHO there's a limit to how much information can/should be usefully expressed on the commandline, and qemu is approaching that limit. Paul