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On Monday 03 September 2007, Philip Boulain wrote:
> (Ok, the latter is needlessly Turing complete, so tools can't
> understand it, but "tools" are i) out of scope ii) better served by Q-
> style XML plists anyway.)

It's not if Qemu is the "shell":
#!qemu <options>

Would just need to convince qemu to ignore the final shellscript filename, or 
perhaps have it recognize #! in HD images and upon encountering it, skip past 
the first newline...