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On 8/11/07, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 22:28 +0100, Philip Boulain wrote:
> > This works, so long as qemu disregards "-read-args-from-image" unless it's
> > being called as an interpreter. Otherwise, you've put the lock and the key in
> > the same place. :)
>
> Yes.  This is exactly what I think the behavior ought to be.

Ack.

> > (Side thought: presumably, we're assuming that the in-file and on-command-line
> > arguments are unioned, ideally with the latter taking precidence if mutually
> > exclusive.)
>
> Yup, I was thinking the same thing too.  Once the KVM wiki comes back
> online I'll write something up on a wiki page.

Great, that was also my idea. Anyone interested in taking a stab at
this one? I will try and start getting it done this week.

Cheers,
Jorge