Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-10-02 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 09:48:25AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" writes: > > > * Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: > >> On 29 September 2015 at 14:11, Dr. David Alan Gilbert > >> wrote: > >> > * Peter Maydell

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-10-02 Thread Programmingkid
On Oct 2, 2015, at 8:33 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:53:50AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 30 September 2015 at 09:14, Dr. David Alan Gilbert >> wrote: >>> * Markus Armbruster (arm...@redhat.com) wrote: In my opinion, QEMU should leave

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-10-02 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:53:50AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 30 September 2015 at 09:14, Dr. David Alan Gilbert > wrote: > > * Markus Armbruster (arm...@redhat.com) wrote: > >> In my opinion, QEMU should leave them to separate GUI shells, because > >> doing everything

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-10-02 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Daniel P. Berrange (berra...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 09:48:25AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > > "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" writes: > I don't find the lack of expertise argument very compelling in general, as > that's just a self-fullfilling prophecy

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-10-02 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 01.10.2015 um 12:36 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben: > > > On 30/09/2015 16:23, Programmingkid wrote: > >> We clearly don't have the > >> active maintainer and review capacity to do anything serious with > >> "ui/" (MAINTAINERS lists everything except SPICE as Odd Fixes). > > > > This could be

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-10-02 Thread Programmingkid
On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 02:33:22PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: >> * Daniel P. Berrange (berra...@redhat.com) wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 09:48:25AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert"

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-10-02 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 02:33:22PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Daniel P. Berrange (berra...@redhat.com) wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 09:48:25AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > > > "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" writes: > > > I don't find the lack of expertise

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-10-02 Thread Programmingkid
On Oct 2, 2015, at 12:21 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/02/2015 08:37 AM, Programmingkid wrote: >>> Even if it were a fancier GUI, I don't think it would really go very far to >>> providing users a solution which is on a par with VirtualBox or VMWare >>> Desktop >>> which are the benchmarks, as

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-10-02 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/02/2015 08:37 AM, Programmingkid wrote: >> Even if it were a fancier GUI, I don't think it would really go very far to >> providing users a solution which is on a par with VirtualBox or VMWare >> Desktop >> which are the benchmarks, as the GUI will forever be limited to only dealing >> with

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-10-01 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Markus Armbruster (arm...@redhat.com) wrote: > "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" writes: > > > * Markus Armbruster (arm...@redhat.com) wrote: > >> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" writes: > >> > >> > * Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: > >> >> On 29

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-10-01 Thread Markus Armbruster
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" writes: > * Markus Armbruster (arm...@redhat.com) wrote: >> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" writes: >> >> > * Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: >> >> On 29 September 2015 at 14:11, Dr. David Alan Gilbert >> >>

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-10-01 Thread Markus Armbruster
Peter Maydell writes: > On 30 September 2015 at 09:14, Dr. David Alan Gilbert > wrote: >> * Markus Armbruster (arm...@redhat.com) wrote: >>> In my opinion, QEMU should leave them to separate GUI shells, because >>> doing everything in QEMU

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-10-01 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 30/09/2015 16:23, Programmingkid wrote: >> We clearly don't have the >> active maintainer and review capacity to do anything serious with >> "ui/" (MAINTAINERS lists everything except SPICE as Odd Fixes). > > This could be changed. Sure it could. Who's going to do the work? >> This is

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-10-01 Thread Programmingkid
On Sep 30, 2015, at 6:53 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 30 September 2015 at 09:14, Dr. David Alan Gilbert > wrote: >> * Markus Armbruster (arm...@redhat.com) wrote: >>> In my opinion, QEMU should leave them to separate GUI shells, because >>> doing everything in QEMU

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-10-01 Thread Peter Maydell
On 30 September 2015 at 09:14, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Markus Armbruster (arm...@redhat.com) wrote: >> In my opinion, QEMU should leave them to separate GUI shells, because >> doing everything in QEMU distracts from our core mission and we don't >> have GUI

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-30 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 29/09/2015 15:23, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > Yeh, I'm not sure how easily that'll be to glue into the monitor, > because the monitor has a parser that's fed somehow from the chardev. See how qmp_human_monitor_command is implemented. It basically bypasses the chardev part of the

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-30 Thread Markus Armbruster
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" writes: > * Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: >> On 29 September 2015 at 14:11, Dr. David Alan Gilbert >> wrote: >> > * Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: >> >> On 28 September 2015 at 20:43,

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-30 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Markus Armbruster (arm...@redhat.com) wrote: > "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" writes: > > > * Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: > >> On 29 September 2015 at 14:11, Dr. David Alan Gilbert > >> wrote: > >> > * Peter Maydell

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-29 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: > On 28 September 2015 at 20:43, Programmingkid > wrote: > > > > On Sep 28, 2015, at 3:29 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > > > >> Programmingkid writes: > >>>

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-29 Thread Peter Maydell
On 29 September 2015 at 14:11, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: >> On 28 September 2015 at 20:43, Programmingkid >> wrote: >> > >> > On Sep 28, 2015, at 3:29 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> >> You

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-29 Thread Programmingkid
On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:11 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: >> On 28 September 2015 at 20:43, Programmingkid >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 28, 2015, at 3:29 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >>> Programmingkid

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-29 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: > On 29 September 2015 at 14:11, Dr. David Alan Gilbert > wrote: > > * Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: > >> On 28 September 2015 at 20:43, Programmingkid > >> wrote: > >> > > >> >

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-29 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Programmingkid (programmingk...@gmail.com) wrote: > > On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:11 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > * Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: > >> On 28 September 2015 at 20:43, Programmingkid > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Sep 28, 2015, at

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-28 Thread Markus Armbruster
Programmingkid writes: > On Sep 27, 2015, at 10:30 PM, Michael Roth wrote: > >> Quoting Programmingkid (2015-09-27 20:49:24) >>> >>> On Sep 27, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Peter Crosthwaite wrote: >>> On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Peter Maydell

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-28 Thread Peter Maydell
On 28 September 2015 at 20:43, Programmingkid wrote: > > On Sep 28, 2015, at 3:29 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > >> Programmingkid writes: >>> A menu item >>> that displays a file open

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-28 Thread Programmingkid
On Sep 28, 2015, at 3:29 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Programmingkid writes: > >> On Sep 27, 2015, at 10:30 PM, Michael Roth wrote: >> >>> Quoting Programmingkid (2015-09-27 20:49:24) On Sep 27, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Peter Crosthwaite wrote: > On

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-28 Thread Programmingkid
On Sep 28, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 28 September 2015 at 20:43, Programmingkid > wrote: >> >> On Sep 28, 2015, at 3:29 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> >>> Programmingkid writes:

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-27 Thread Peter Crosthwaite
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 27 September 2015 at 04:39, Programmingkid > wrote: >> Would you be open to a feature that allows the user to select >> and run a custom file that has commands in it that would run >>

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-27 Thread Programmingkid
On Sep 27, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Peter Crosthwaite wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Peter Maydell > wrote: >> On 27 September 2015 at 04:39, Programmingkid >> wrote: >>> Would you be open to a feature that allows the user to select

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-27 Thread Michael Roth
Quoting Programmingkid (2015-09-27 20:49:24) > > On Sep 27, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Peter Crosthwaite wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Peter Maydell > > wrote: > >> On 27 September 2015 at 04:39, Programmingkid > >> wrote: > >>>

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-27 Thread Programmingkid
On Sep 27, 2015, at 10:30 PM, Michael Roth wrote: > Quoting Programmingkid (2015-09-27 20:49:24) >> >> On Sep 27, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Peter Crosthwaite wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Peter Maydell >>> wrote: On 27 September 2015 at 04:39,

Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-27 Thread Peter Maydell
On 27 September 2015 at 04:39, Programmingkid wrote: > Would you be open to a feature that allows the user to select > and run a custom file that has commands in it that would run > in the monitor? Sounds like a VM management layer feature. -- PMM

[Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

2015-09-26 Thread Programmingkid
Would you be open to a feature that allows the user to select and run a custom file that has commands in it that would run in the monitor?