From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49808) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zgv0I-0000SN-6k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 09:31:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zgv0D-0002ph-Ad for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 09:31:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54742) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zgv0D-0002pd-5B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2015 09:31:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:31:24 +0100 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Message-ID: <20150929133124.GK3810@work-vm> References: <87E5D202-0E71-426D-807A-A0737EF07158@gmail.com> <20150928023046.4417.51660@loki> <371B9FFB-14FD-4707-9094-29EC9F6B508F@gmail.com> <87vbavm27u.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <20150929131109.GI3810@work-vm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: Michael Roth , Programmingkid , Peter Crosthwaite , qemu-devel qemu-devel , Markus Armbruster * Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@linaro.org) wrote: > On 29 September 2015 at 14:11, Dr. David Alan Gilbert > wrote: > > * Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@linaro.org) wrote: > >> On 28 September 2015 at 20:43, Programmingkid wrote: > >> > > >> > On Sep 28, 2015, at 3:29 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > >> >> 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. > > Yeah, these are both plausible. Neither of them are GUI features, > though... Well, I don't use the GTK gui; I can see that those who do might want features in it. Dave > > -- PMM -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK