On 23 February 2011 16:01, Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> wrote: > Yes. I view the command line as optional. To me, this is the ideal > interaction: > > 1) start qemu with an empty stateful config file > > 2) issue monitor commands to create all devices and backends > > 3) the stateful config file totally captures the state of all of the issued > QMP commands. The management tool can relaunch the guest just by passing > the stateful config file to QEMU. > > 4) when the management tool needs to "extract" a config file, it can read > the stateful config (through the monitor) and generate it's own config. > > 5) the management tool should treat the stateful config file as more or less > opaque. It shouldn't be visible to end user. > > In the non-managed case, users should interact directly with the config > file.
For the typical TCG use case, that sounds a whole lot worse than the current situation of "just run qemu with a suitable command line"... -- PMM
