On 10/06/2016 03:10 PM, Programmingkid wrote: > > On Oct 6, 2016, at 3:59 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > >> On 10/06/2016 09:22 AM, Programmingkid wrote: >>> Would you accept a patch that added "Save State" and "Restore State" menu >>> items to the cocoa interface? They would allow the user to save the running >>> state of the emulator. >> >> Doesn't virt-manager already do this? What do we gain by duplicating >> GUI functionality at this level that is already implemented at higher >> levels? Not that I'm opposed to the idea, but having a solid reason why >> it is useful is important. > > Virt-manager is a Linux exclusive. This program doesn't run on Windows or > Mac OS.
Not true. I've seen it ported to Windows, and I'm sure Cole would welcome a port to Mac. > The savevm feature is anything but perfect, but that doesn't mean we > shouldn't provide easy access to it. This feature is already there in > QEMU, so why not help the user be able to use it? If you want to HELP the user, then tell them to use a management app that has already dealt with the problems of consistent snapshots, rather than making the user reinvent it themselves by clicking a gui button that does incomplete work. Yes, qemu has a gui. But I maintain that it is mostly a mistake, and that time spent improving the gui in this project, rather than porting and improving better upper-layer guis, is probably wasted. The Unix philosophy is "do one thing and do it well" - we don't always live up to it, but on THIS mailing list, the thing we do well is emulation, not guis. You are going to be hard-pressed to find reviewers, even if you spend time solving the technical issues. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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