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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:04:21 -0200
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] new SDL keyboard shortcuts to start and stop
	VM
From: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wr=
ote:
> Glauber Costa wrote:
>>
>> Why don't we provide a mechanism to make a macro out of a sequence of
>> monitor commands, and let the user assign whatever he wants out of that?
>>
>
> Really? =C2=A0This seems exceedingly complicated to me.
>
> Redirecting the kernel output to serial and logging is a considerably bet=
ter
> solution.
To his specific problem, yes.

But this probably don't work so well on some OSes that are less serial frie=
ndly.
Also, there are valid use cases in which one may want, for example, to paus=
e
fast if some graphical event happens, which is an extension of what he ment=
ioned
initially.

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