On 29 September 2015 at 14:11, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com> 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: >> >> 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.
Yeah, these are both plausible. Neither of them are GUI features, though... -- PMM