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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] debugcon: support for debugging consoles
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> You can stick it into a config file[1] like this:
> 
> [chardev "debuglog"]
>   backend = "file"
>   path = "/path/to/debug.log"
> 
> [device]
>   driver = "isa-debugcon"
>   chardev = "debuglog"
> 
> Then use "qemu -readconfig $file".
> 

Great... at least in my opinion, one of the things that makes Qemu so 
much easier to use than Bochs is that one has a comprehensive (and 
comprehensable) command line and don't have to set up a configuration 
file for every trivial little thing.  It's a good thing for long-living 
virtualization instances, but I would be sad if the command line will 
end up being neglected.

	-hpa