From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1My8yp-000080-GU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:53:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1My8yl-00007W-Rt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:53:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46799 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1My8yl-00007S-Nr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:53:43 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]:5668) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1My8yl-0006GN-B5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:53:43 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 22so1180087fge.10 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:53:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AD61E2B.3070805@codemonkey.ws> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:53:31 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] QemuOpts: config file support. References: <1255509568-10635-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1255509568-10635-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > Very first cut of config file support, to get the discussion rolling ;) > I actually spent some time on this last week. I ran into a fundamental problem though--default devices don't have id's associated with them so there is no way to configure them via -set. Regards, Anthony Liguori > We might use this some day to provide defaults for vga, nic, serial etc. > Also host-wide defaults (network setup for example) should be doable. > Just needs some careful planning which config files to read in which > cases and in which order ;) > > cheers, > Gerd > > > >