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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:02:22 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow setting qemu process name
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/01/2009 07:34 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> >  The command-line we have is already quite big...
> >   
> 
> We can add a response file, for example '@my-vm-options.cfg' or 
> '-options my-vm-options.cfg' (the first syntax is common on DOS and 
> descendants).  It's nice as a baseline that you can override:
> 
>    qemu @my-vm -m 8G
> 
> starts a guest but specifies a different memory size.

We already have it:

    qemu `cat my-vm` -m 8G

MS-DOS applications have response files only because the shell doesn't.
We don't need it in unix.

-- Jamie