From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables"
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 16:00:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150204160005.GA9423@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150203190921.GR3354@HEDWIG.INI.CMU.EDU>
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 02:09:22PM -0500, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> qemu-system-x86_64 -guest-env="VAR1=value1;VAR2=value 2" -hda image.qcow2
libguestfs does this already by passing a few environment variables on
the kernel command line. This requires a Linux guest kernel and that
you're using the -kernel and -append options.
For a more general purpose approach, I'd suggest something with
virtio-serial.
What problem is this actually trying to solve?
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-04 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-03 19:09 [Qemu-devel] RFC: Proposal to add QEMU "Guest Environment Variables" Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-02-03 19:14 ` Denis V. Lunev
2015-02-03 20:14 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-02-03 20:23 ` Denis V. Lunev
2015-02-03 19:26 ` Eric Blake
2015-02-03 20:54 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-02-03 20:11 ` Michael Roth
2015-02-03 21:38 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-02-03 21:49 ` Denis V. Lunev
2015-02-03 22:14 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-02-03 22:08 ` Michael Roth
2015-02-04 9:31 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-02-04 15:20 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-02-04 15:24 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-02-04 15:59 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2015-02-04 16:12 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-02-04 9:29 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-02-04 15:55 ` Christopher Covington
2015-02-04 16:00 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2015-02-04 16:06 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
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