Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support

["Ricardo Almeida" <ric.almeida@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Comments are always welcome, I guess, but since there is someone with
interest to implement config files, maybe constructive comments are
better :p

I don't dislike the use of xml nor I think is bloat. This subject as
been discuted in the list,
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-01/msg00030.html ,
xml format has already been proposed,
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-08/msg00034.html ,
promptly followed by key/value pair proposal...

Maybe the best is writing a tool like vqemu,
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-01/msg00063.html
that can be easily updated to support the different file formats and
see what people prefer...

Regards,
Ricardo Almeida

On 10/21/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Chuck Brazie wrote:
>
> > What are your ideas on the syntax of the config file? Will it be XML
> > based or similar to the current options?
>
> Oh yes! *claps his hands* XML! *gets shiny eyes* We absolutely have not
> enough bloat in QEmu! You could integrate libxml2. Or even better, write
> yet-another XML parser!
>
> And encodings! XML has automatic encodings! We got to have them. Yes,
> encodings. It is international!
>
> And you can put blobs into an XML! Isn't that a great feature we could
> use?
>
> The best of all, it's a Best Practice! Plus, you can write a DTD for it
> and _validate_ it! Or even an _XML Schema_!
>
> ...
>
> You get the idea.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
>
>
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