From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, laurent.vivier@bull.net,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Réf. : Re: [PATCH][RFC] Allowing QEMU to directly executeadirectory (and storing command line options in it)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 23:59:28 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709012358220.28586@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46D975A8.6020002@qumranet.com>
Hi,
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > > I think passing only the directory name is better because it can be like
> > > a "black box" : the user don't have to know how it is inside.
> > >
> >
> > I consider this a super downside.
> >
> > "If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it [your
> > software]."
> >
>
> I don't consider myself an idiot, yet I get annoyed when software forces me
> to learn its implementation details.
Maybe you missed my point.
If the user executes "qemu -c bla/config", she might get interested in
looking at that file, and find out that it is easy to modify. That is
definitely a benefit worth having.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-01 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-31 20:13 [Qemu-devel] Réf. : Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Allowing QEMU to directly executeadirectory (and storing command line options in it) laurent.vivier
2007-08-31 21:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-01 14:22 ` [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Réf. : " Avi Kivity
2007-09-01 22:59 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-09-01 0:19 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: Réf. : Re: [kvm-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2007-09-01 5:44 ` Luke -Jr
2007-09-01 8:05 ` pterjan
2007-09-03 9:12 ` Laurent Vivier
2007-09-01 0:52 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] Réf. : " Daniel P. Berrange
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