Re: [libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-16 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 08:55:25PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >> is required for any serious development work. I *hate* to having to > >> create a wrapper script each time I need to pass in additional > >> parameters, and I'd *love* to see libvirt being a bit more de

Re: [libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-15 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > If you are a developer and want to develop something, I think it a great > > thing to have a developement package or distro. If you want to have the > > same features as others, you are no more than a user and want something > > stable. > > Rubbish. J

Re: [libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-15 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Stefan de Konink wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2008, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > >> Stefan de Konink wrote: >>> Adding features that are enabled with #ifdef HAVE_DEVELOPMENT would be a >>> good thing. >> No. Compile time options are evil, most of the time. I wanna use the >> standard fedora libvirt package

Re: [libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-15 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Stefan de Konink wrote: > > Adding features that are enabled with #ifdef HAVE_DEVELOPMENT would be a > > good thing. > > No. Compile time options are evil, most of the time. I wanna use the > standard fedora libvirt package for my work (except when hac

Re: [libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-15 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> is required for any serious development work. I *hate* to having to >> create a wrapper script each time I need to pass in additional >> parameters, and I'd *love* to see libvirt being a bit more developer >> friendly. > > Historically we've not had very complete cove

Re: [libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-15 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Stefan de Konink wrote: > Adding features that are enabled with #ifdef HAVE_DEVELOPMENT would be a > good thing. No. Compile time options are evil, most of the time. I wanna use the standard fedora libvirt package for my work (except when hacking libvirt itself, obviously). "Oh, you can do foo,

Re: [libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-15 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:05:58AM -0400, David Abrahams wrote: > on Thu May 15 2008, "Daniel P. Berrange" wrote: > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:34:20PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > > Historically we've not had very complete coverage of QEMU args, but we've > > been adding alot of new functi

Re: [libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-15 Thread David Abrahams
on Thu May 15 2008, "Daniel P. Berrange" wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:34:20PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> >> > We explicitly do not support passing arbitrary arguments to QEMU. >> >> Supporting and implementing are two different things IMHO. >> >> It is p

Re: [libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-15 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:34:20PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > We explicitly do not support passing arbitrary arguments to QEMU. > > Supporting and implementing are two different things IMHO. > > It is pretty clear that *supporting* such a configuration is imposs

Re: [libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-15 Thread David Abrahams
on Thu May 15 2008, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >> We explicitly do not support passing arbitrary arguments to QEMU. > > Supporting and implementing are two different things IMHO. > > It is pretty clear that *supporting* such a configuration is impossible > and that runnin

Re: [libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-15 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > It is pretty clear that *supporting* such a configuration is impossible > and that running it on production systems is a really bad idea for the > reasons outlined. > > Nevertheless being able to pass random additional arguments to $emulator > is require

Re: [libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-15 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > We explicitly do not support passing arbitrary arguments to QEMU. Supporting and implementing are two different things IMHO. It is pretty clear that *supporting* such a configuration is impossible and that running it on production systems is a really bad idea for the

Re: [libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-15 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:10:31AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > David Abrahams wrote: > > I normally launch my kvm VM from the command line with "-redir > > tcp:3389:3389" > > but have been unable to find a way to set up virt-manager to launch it the > > same > > way. Ditto for other qemu optio

Re: [libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-15 Thread David Abrahams
on Thu May 15 2008, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > David Abrahams wrote: >> I normally launch my kvm VM from the command line with "-redir tcp:3389:3389" >> but have been unable to find a way to set up virt-manager to launch it the >> same >> way. Ditto for other qemu options such as "-soundhw all".

Re: [libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-15 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
David Abrahams wrote: > I normally launch my kvm VM from the command line with "-redir tcp:3389:3389" > but have been unable to find a way to set up virt-manager to launch it the > same > way. Ditto for other qemu options such as "-soundhw all". Is there a way? Not directly in the config. Usua

[libvirt] how to pass qemu options?

2008-05-14 Thread David Abrahams
I normally launch my kvm VM from the command line with "-redir tcp:3389:3389" but have been unable to find a way to set up virt-manager to launch it the same way. Ditto for other qemu options such as "-soundhw all". Is there a way? TIA, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.co