On 8/14/07, Laurent Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Markus Hitter wrote: > > > > Am 13.08.2007 um 11:19 schrieb Laurent Vivier: > > > >> We can modify qemu to test if the argument is a directory, if yes, it > >> reads args > >> from file args in this directory and for security the disk image must > >> be in the > >> same directory. > >> > >> for instance, we have: > >> > >> ./pc1/ > >> ./pc1/args > >> ./pc1/my_disk > >> > >> and in ./pc1/args, we have "-hda my_disk" > > > > ... and "-hdb ../pc2/my_other_disk" > > If we want to preserve security we should forbid this, but you can make a > soft link: > > ln -s shared_disks/my_disk1 pc1/my_shared_disk > ln -s shared_disks/my_disk1 pc2/my_shared_disk > > and have pc1/args and pc2/args = "-hda my_disk -hdb my_shared_disk" > to have: > > qemu -hda pc1/my_disk -hdb pc1/my_shared_disk > > qemu -hda pc2/my_disk and -hdb pc2/my_shared_disk > > > The directory idea sounds good. Especially for me, as I'm obviously the > > only one running one disk image in different virtual machines. > > > > Plus, it'd work for physical partitions / disks: Simply have a directory > > with an "args" file only. > > > > > > my $ 0.01 > > Markus
Quoting Thiemo, this '@' thing was "a feature which is now implemented in the GNU toolchain". That's why I tried it. Now I would like to know what he did to get it working. It would certainly be an useful feature, even if it does not exactly suit our purposes. I still think that the executable-image approach could work nicely. However, the point in favour of a configuration directory when using physical partitions or disks is good. Nonetheless, a physical partition is much less "volatile" than an disk image, so the disadvantage of keeping a shell script is small in that case. Cheers, Jorge
