Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@linaro.org) wrote:
> On 28 September 2015 at 20:43, Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 28, 2015, at 3:29 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >
> >> Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com> writes:
> >>>                                                         A menu item
> >>> that displays a file open dialog is very easy to use. The user just selects
> >>> a file and QEMU loads and runs all the commands in it. This feature
> >>> would make QEMU easier to use. It would also make QEMU easily
> >>> expandable. Typing long commands in the monitor is difficult and
> >>> error prone. Saving these commands in a file would make it much
> >>> easier for the user. An example command someone could put in a
> >>> file is sending Control-Alt-Delete to the emulator. Another command
> >>> could be mounting an image file. This feature would make things
> >>> much easier for the user.
> >>
> >> You didn't mention you're talking about a *GUI* feature.
> >
> > I'm thinking it would be easier to send in the patch rather than talk about
> > what this feature could be.
> 
> I think Markus and I are trying to save you that effort by
> pointing out that this is a VM management layer feature,
> not a core QEMU feature.

OK, so I'm going to agree with Programmingkid here.
I think this would be a useful feature to have in QEMU; I've
got gratuitous hacks in some of my test scripts that work
around it not being there.

I think there are two possible things, both of which seem fairly
easy:
  1) Add a -chardev from file that works in this case
     (I don't think the current chardev file works does it?)

  2) A 'source' like command.

Dave

> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK