From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IKrZB-0007bt-1x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:15:53 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IKrYy-0007aF-Hj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:15:52 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IKrYy-0007aC-A5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:15:40 -0400 Received: from [129.183.4.8] (helo=ecfrec.frec.bull.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IKrYq-0002Tq-KS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:15:34 -0400 Message-ID: <46C15DCE.1000205@bull.net> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:46:22 +0200 From: Laurent Vivier MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: Storing command line options in images References: <59abf66e0708092155t2e3cd5o32f23c018bed65af@mail.gmail.com> <46BC8C18.6020108@codemonkey.ws> <46BC9CDB.3080900@qumranet.com> <46BCB1DA.6060102@codemonkey.ws> <46BCBF73.5060406@qumranet.com> <46BCC666.6050406@codemonkey.ws> <59abf66e0708101841i76e26a35vcbc8df14b21f1ac0@mail.gmail.com> <20070813193927.GA21215@networkno.de> In-Reply-To: <20070813193927.GA21215@networkno.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigF6D1CB583D3ABF2DE436FCF1" Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Thiemo Seufer Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Luc=E1ngeli_Obes?= , qemu-devel@nongnu.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigF6D1CB583D3ABF2DE436FCF1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Jorge Luc=E1ngeli Obes wrote: > [snip] >> When I read Avi's TODO, I basically thought about getting rid of the >> long command lines I had to store in scripts. I wanted to write that >> command line once, and then forgetting about it, until I needed to >> change it. >=20 > Instead of inventing great and wonderfully complicated schemes, the > most sensible way I can think of is to recycle a feature which is now > implemented in the GNU toolchain, and apparently stems from Windows: >=20 > qemu @qemu.cfg >=20 > where qemu.cfg is a file which contains the command line arguments. > (This is also low-maintenance, as it allows to re-use the existing IMHO, it should be implemented at the shell level, not qemu level, like "= *" is. Laurent --=20 ------------- Laurent.Vivier@bull.net -------------- "Software is hard" - Donald Knuth --------------enigF6D1CB583D3ABF2DE436FCF1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGwV3R9Kffa9pFVzwRArPvAKCup0Xws+HZ8ajzYlhZCCarx8js0wCgqPcs gBk1P+WKjtGnFq2lzK8D0Ms= =MGsm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigF6D1CB583D3ABF2DE436FCF1--