Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-25 Thread Joe Batt
I disagree. /bin/sh makes a very flexible config file format that I use. I use it on win32, Linux and Mac OS X. I would prefer that you write another cross platform shell, than another config file. At least that way I could use the same config tool for more than one application.

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-25 Thread Anthony Liguori
Joe Batt wrote: I disagree. /bin/sh makes a very flexible config file format that I use. I use it on win32, Linux and Mac OS X. The problem with only taking command line arguments is that the number and size of command line arguments are severely limited on certain platforms. This is why

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-25 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Anthony Liguori wrote: Joe Batt wrote: I disagree. /bin/sh makes a very flexible config file format that I use. I use it on win32, Linux and Mac OS X. The problem with only taking command line arguments is that the number and size of command line arguments are severely limited on

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-06 Thread Joseph Miller
Avi Kivity wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: I think most people agree that we need a config file. I haven't seen any comments on my config file patch though. So, any comments on that patch? Any requirements on a format? 1. Any option should be settable either in the config file or

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-04 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: 1. Any option should be settable either in the config file or command line. In other words, the user should not be forced to use a config file. This is useful for management programs who keep all options in an internal database, and for users who can experiment via

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-04 Thread Avi Kivity
Paul Brook wrote: Out of curiosity, why? If the options are store in some database, as is likely, surely it is easier to generate a longish command line than to generate a unique name for a file, remove it if it already exists, write out the data, launch qemu, and clean up the file later? And

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-04 Thread Paul Brook
On Sunday 04 March 2007 11:48, Avi Kivity wrote: Paul Brook wrote: Out of curiosity, why? If the options are store in some database, as is likely, surely it is easier to generate a longish command line than to generate a unique name for a file, remove it if it already exists, write out

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-04 Thread Anthony Liguori
Avi Kivity wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: 1. Any option should be settable either in the config file or command line. In other words, the user should not be forced to use a config file. This is useful for management programs who keep all options in an internal database, and for users who

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-04 Thread Avi Kivity
Chris Wilson wrote: Hi Avi, On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: I think we should still provide the ability to set the most common options via the command line. I'm also fine with specifying single options on the command line. I suspect though that being able to

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-03 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: I think most people agree that we need a config file. I haven't seen any comments on my config file patch though. So, any comments on that patch? Any requirements on a format? 1. Any option should be settable either in the config file or command line. In other

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-03 Thread Anthony Liguori
Avi Kivity wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: I think most people agree that we need a config file. I haven't seen any comments on my config file patch though. So, any comments on that patch? Any requirements on a format? 1. Any option should be settable either in the config file or

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-02 Thread Laurent Vivier
Paul Brook wrote: On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:26, Laurent Vivier wrote: Hi, As I'm a newcomer, I don't know the story about qemu/pc and scsi disks, but I propose a little patch to make SCSI disks visible. See previous discussion about how the disk options need to be fixed properly.

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-02 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Laurent Vivier wrote: Paul Brook wrote: On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:26, Laurent Vivier wrote: Hi, As I'm a newcomer, I don't know the story about qemu/pc and scsi disks, but I propose a little patch to make SCSI disks visible. See previous discussion about how the disk options

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Brook
There's also no reason to limit to 7 disks, and we should support scsi cdroms. The reason for 7 is the number of available id on the scsi bus. For wide scsi it is 15. I wouldn't bet on wide scsi working. For PCI based systems you can add more host adapters to get more devices. I

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-02 Thread Anthony Liguori
Paul Brook wrote: There's also no reason to limit to 7 disks, and we should support scsi cdroms. The reason for 7 is the number of available id on the scsi bus. For wide scsi it is 15. I wouldn't bet on wide scsi working. For PCI based systems you can add more host

[Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-01 Thread Laurent Vivier
Hi, As I'm a newcomer, I don't know the story about qemu/pc and scsi disks, but I propose a little patch to make SCSI disks visible. Disks are not bootable, I think we should write a BIOS for that ? Regards, Laurent -- - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Any sufficiently

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Brook
On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:26, Laurent Vivier wrote: Hi, As I'm a newcomer, I don't know the story about qemu/pc and scsi disks, but I propose a little patch to make SCSI disks visible. See previous discussion about how the disk options need to be fixed properly. Apart from anything else