Re: [Qemu-devel] news on the OS X cocoa port

[Joshua Root <z3022016@student.unsw.edu.au>]

On 21 Jul 2005, Natalia Portillo <claunia@claunia.com> wrote:
>El 21/07/2005, a las 18:33, Stealth Dave escribió:
>
>>On Jul 21, 2005, at 6:46 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>>
>>>On 7/21/05, Mike Kronenberg <mike.kronenberg@kberg.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>I'm thinking of a new way to store the images and saved VMs, too.
>>>>Maybe we could make something like vpc: A package with the config,
>>>>disk-images and saved VMs, located in ~/Documents/QEMU PCs/
>>>>
>>>
>>>Nice idea.
>>>
>>
>>I would recommend ~/Library/QEMU/PCs as an 
>>alternative.  OS X tends  to store all of its 
>>program specific configuration information in 
>>the Library folder, which separates it from 
>>actual Documents such  as disk images, word 
>>processor files, images, etc.
>>
>>Just $0.02 from the Peanut Gallery! :)
>>
>>- Dave
>
>Yeah but the Library is a obscure place, and 
>VirtualPC for example  uses Documents with 
>packages inside and I think that is an elegant 
>way and also will help deal with old users.
>Also VPC uses XML for hardware description and 
>should be easy to make  a XML<->XML virtual 
>machine converter, with along qemu-img will 
>allow  people to convert old VPC machines to 
>QEMU ones (will be very useful  for me).

Besides which, you're not meant to go creating 
random folders at the top level of ~/Library/. If 
you have a single configuration file, it goes in 
~/Library/Preferences/, or if you have a 
collection of things, you create a subfolder in 
~/Library/Application Support/ and put them there.

I would prefer ~/Documents/QEMU/ rather than 
~/Library/Application Support/QEMU/ since the 
files stored there will not just be managed 
internally by the app; the user will know about 
them.

Cheers,
Josh