---- "K. Richard Pixley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 October 2006 2:42 pm, Chuck Brazie wrote: > > > >> Is there any work going on now to add config file support? > >> > >> Chuck Brazie > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > As a random end-user, I really like being able to run qemu without a config > > file, configuring it entirely on the command line. I'd be highly > > disappointed if qemu turned into another Wine. > Except that I never do. Instead, I write a trivial shell script since I > can never remember the command line options, much less type them in > consistently. > > What's the difference between a shell script to cover qemu and a > #!/bin/qemu config file? Seems to me they both address roughly the same > issues with roughly the same considerations. Am I missing any > significant functionality differences?
There are probably no functional differences. A shell script with a config file (which is how I wrote one 18 months ago) should be able to handle almost any kind of config, without adding to code bloat to qemu. The script I wrote is probably horribly out of date, and has some holes (and probably some logic flaws yet unfound), but for the most part replicated most of the things I wanted to do (networking, tun/tap or redirs, samba etc ) without having to type command lines in excess of 200 characters. Given that I had probably 8-10 qemu guest systems, it was a huge time saver when it came to starting up a brand new guest. Ben _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
