Re : [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

Re : [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

[Sylvain Petreolle]

----- Message d'origine ----
De : Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
À : qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc : kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Jorge Lucángeli Obes <t4m5yn@gmail.com>
Envoyé le : Jeudi, 16 Août 2007, 7h23mn 16s
Objet : Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)
     
>
> Well, you can make it work with a header (you just have to pad it out to
> a fixed length or use a variable-offset format), but binfmt_misc might
> be a better choice.
>
>   

binfmt_misc is Linux specific.  And while kvm is a Linux thing now, qemu
isn't.

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Wouldnt be #! Linux specific too ?
 
Kind regards,
Sylvain Petreolle (aka Usurp)
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Re: Re : [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

[Avi Kivity]

Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>> ----- Message d'origine ----
>> De : Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
>> À : qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>> Cc : kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Jorge Lucángeli Obes <t4m5yn@gmail.com>
>> Envoyé le : Jeudi, 16 Août 2007, 7h23mn 16s
>> Objet : Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)
>>      
>>     
>>> Well, you can make it work with a header (you just have to pad it out to
>>> a fixed length or use a variable-offset format), but binfmt_misc might
>>> be a better choice.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>
>> binfmt_misc is Linux specific.  And while kvm is a Linux thing now, qemu
>> isn't.
>>
>>     
> Wouldnt be #! Linux specific too ?
>  

It's unix-specific, not Linux-specific.  Windows users can change file
associations to have qemu run .qcow files.

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Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.