* Programmingkid (programmingk...@gmail.com) wrote: > > On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:11 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > * Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: > >> On 28 September 2015 at 20:43, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Sep 28, 2015, at 3:29 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > >>> > >>>> Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> writes: > >>>>> A menu item > >>>>> that displays a file open dialog is very easy to use. The user just > >>>>> selects > >>>>> a file and QEMU loads and runs all the commands in it. This feature > >>>>> would make QEMU easier to use. It would also make QEMU easily > >>>>> expandable. Typing long commands in the monitor is difficult and > >>>>> error prone. Saving these commands in a file would make it much > >>>>> easier for the user. An example command someone could put in a > >>>>> file is sending Control-Alt-Delete to the emulator. Another command > >>>>> could be mounting an image file. This feature would make things > >>>>> much easier for the user. > >>>> > >>>> You didn't mention you're talking about a *GUI* feature. > >>> > >>> I'm thinking it would be easier to send in the patch rather than talk > >>> about > >>> what this feature could be. > >> > >> I think Markus and I are trying to save you that effort by > >> pointing out that this is a VM management layer feature, > >> not a core QEMU feature. > > > > OK, so I'm going to agree with Programmingkid here. > > I think this would be a useful feature to have in QEMU; I've > > got gratuitous hacks in some of my test scripts that work > > around it not being there. > > > > I think there are two possible things, both of which seem fairly > > easy: > > 1) Add a -chardev from file that works in this case > > (I don't think the current chardev file works does it?) > > > > 2) A 'source' like command. > > My idea was to just send the command to the monitor as if the user typed them > up.
Yeh, I'm not sure how easily that'll be to glue into the monitor, because the monitor has a parser that's fed somehow from the chardev. Dave -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
