Re: plex86.conf script file ideas

[Ramon van Handel]

[snip]
>Being able to emulate a machine bottom up is really nice, but what could
>make hardware emulation even more powerful would be a run-time scripting
>backend, that can control the environment, such as:
>
> * Freeze the guest processor.
> * Fiddle with the clock
> * Interrupts
> * Rewire serial ports and put "virtual" signals into them
> * Do stuff with the disk/memory access
> * "Rewire" display adaptor, mice, keyboards and other peripherals
> * Ditto network adaptors
>
>By doing this, we create a really neat software test environment.

For this, you don't want to build a scripting language into plex86, but in stead
you want to write a plugin that supports scripting.  I'm not at all against
making, say, a python scripting plugin for plex86, but I am against including
a python interpeter in plex86 to process configuration files.  These are two
completely different things!

-- Ramon