On 9/1/07, Andreas Färber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> What you are basically doing is taking up the concept of a bundle but
> call it directory, do not give it a mandatory folder name extension
> and limit the usefulness of the configuration file to your personal
> needs.
I think the problem he
> And I don't understand why, when going along with the bundle idea,
> you are suddenly creating a new configuration file format of your
> own. There is a standard format, XML or text based, which can be
> easily parsed with OSX APIs (and thus likely *Step APIs as well) as a
> dictionary, allowing
On 8/31/07, Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It makes little sense to pass a directory when you can pass a config
> file and assume that the directory the config file is in is the CWD.
>
> For instance, if vm.cfg contained just the command line arguments, you
> could have:
>
> MyImage/v
tions separated by spaces or
newlines. Careful reconstruction of the command line makes sure the speficied
image file gets executed even if other image files were included later in the
configuration file.
Signed-off-by: Jorge Lucángeli Obes
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diff --git a/qemu/vl.c b/qemu/vl.c
index fcc899b..88
I've been giving some thought to Anthony's idea:
http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Specs/StoringCommandLineInImage
However, maybe I'm just too much on vacations, but I don't seem to
come up with a nice way of doing this. Everything keeps coming back to
creating a new 'container' image format and th
On 8/14/07, Laurent Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Markus Hitter wrote:
> >
> > Am 13.08.2007 um 11:19 schrieb Laurent Vivier:
> >
> >> We can modify qemu to test if the argument is a directory, if yes, it
> >> reads args
> >> from file args in this directory and for security the disk image mu
On 8/14/07, Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 20:39 +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Jorge Lucángeli Obes wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > When I read Avi's TODO, I basically thought about getting rid of the
> > > long comma
On 8/11/07, Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 22:28 +0100, Philip Boulain wrote:
> > This works, so long as qemu disregards "-read-args-from-image" unless it's
> > being called as an interpreter. Otherwise, you've put the lock and the key
> > in
> > the same place.
> > My feeling is that config files are outdated. When used with a gui,
> > you end up writing silly parsers and stuff and still wrecking things
> > horribly when the the gui writer's expectations don't match reality.
> > When used without a gui, they increase the amount of details one has
> > to
Hi all,
>From what I've gathered, it seems that we have basically four options
at hand. I think it's important to notice, however, that whatever
comes out of this will probably be, as Avi said, a "low-end" solution.
IMHO there's room to have both the high-end libvirt-like approach, and
the "shell
This patch makes QEMU check for command line options stored in qcow2 images.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Jorge Lucángeli Obes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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diff --git a/qemu/vl.c b/qemu/vl.c
index 4ad39f1..1d28794 100644
--- a/qemu/vl.c
+++ b/qemu/vl
This patch adds a new qemu-img option to store
command line arguments in qcow2 snapshots.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Jorge Lucángeli Obes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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diff --git a/qemu/qemu-img.c b/qemu/qemu-img.c
index a259546..afa1fcc 100644
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This patch adds block driver functions to use qcow2 image annotations.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Jorge Lucángeli Obes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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diff --git a/qemu/block.c b/qemu/block.c
index 39ec37a..4d794f6 100644
--- a/qemu/block.c
+++ b/
This patch adds an extra 'annot' field to qcow2 snapshots, and updates
serialization functions.
Signed-off-by: Jorge Lucángeli Obes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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diff --git a/qemu/block-qcow2.c b/qemu/block-qcow2.c
index 0f7a069..361d300 100644
--- a/qemu/block-qcow2.c
+++ b/qe
On 8/6/07, Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think adding annotations as snapshots is the right approach. I
> think proper support should be added in the header. I wouldn't be too
> concerned with breaking compatibility in qcow2. That's why it's qcow2
> and not just an updated
On 7/30/07, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jorge Lucángeli Obes wrote:
> > Hi Avi, hi all,
>
> I believe that Laurent (copied) is also interested in this area.
Copied him.
> > I've started some (very minor) groundwork for this task. My idea was
> >
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