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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow setting qemu process name
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To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 07/01/2009 07:19 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>>> Andi Kleen wrote:
>>>        
>>>> [this is a port of a old KVM userland patch I had; Avi back then
>>>> suggested to submit it to qemu]
>>>>
>>>> Set the Linux process name to the name argument specified with
>>>> "-name". I find
>>>> this useful to see which guests are taking CPU time in top.
>>>>          
>>> This is not a bad idea but it has to be optional and non-default.
>>> Maybe a new command line option?
>>>        
>> -name [title=]blah[,process=foobar]
>>      
>
>   Just a question: do we have a plan on stopping/avoiding adding new
> command-line options?
>    

Not at all.  But it makes sense to group related features into a single 
command line option IMO.

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