From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JwcSY-00016j-Ic for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 08:21:22 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JwcSW-00015T-I2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 08:21:21 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57632 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JwcSW-00015N-CV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 08:21:20 -0400 Received: from smtp.syd.people.net.au ([218.214.225.98]:57985) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JwcBU-0005bK-Qo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 08:03:45 -0400 Received: from hendrix (hendrix [192.168.200.99]) by hendrix.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id B4C57ACA78 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 22:03:40 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 22:03:40 +1000 From: Erik de Castro Lopo Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file Message-Id: <20080515220340.10e3fa92.mle+tools@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <1210713545-11916-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> References: <1210713545-11916-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Anthony Liguori wrote: > There has been an awful lot of discussion about a configuration file with > almost no general agreement except that one is strongly desired. One thing I'd like to see is the ability to include one config file inside another. The use case for this is to have something like: my-machine-base.conf which contains base configuration stuff. I might then have a couple of other configs which include the above file: my-machine-use-vde-networking.conf my-machine-standard-networking.conf The base config might not even be a valid config by itself, but is only useful when included with one of these other configs. Comments? Cheers, Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "... there's something really scary about a language (C++) where copying state from one object to another is this complicated" -- Richard Gillam