On 17 January 2017 at 10:42, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com> wrote: > Being able to read a machine description from a file at run time > sounds reasonable, as do tools to manipulate those descriptions. > I don't see why such a description file would be any different > from a firmware file or config file, especially if you were to think > of QEMU in this case more like a simulation environment > which I think is what Liviu is trying to use it as.
Yes, I agree that's fine and I'd be happy with that. That means reading the XML file at runtime that the user provides... > I agree actually including/distributing those description files is a > completely > different issue if they're derived from someone elses files; ...not preprocessing the XML into JSON, losing the license info and attribution and shipping the JSON with QEMU. It's those aspects that I think drop into the 'grey area'. thanks -- PMM
