Jim C. Brown wrote:
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 04:00:12PM +0200, Ren? Korthaus wrote:
That is what I was also thinking about for some time, but first we
should then agree on an universal way of saving configurations (this
was already been touched by the list some time ago, couldnt find the
mails by now). As I am pretty much satisfied with saving the data in
an xml file, I would suggest this way, but we shouldnt only focus on
Mac OS X part, but also on other platforms.
I have a shell script that provides config file support for qemu called vqemu.
Basicly the format is a simple "option=value", the shell script sources the
config file in and then passes certain command line options to qemu based on
the options given.
The script should be easy to modify to use on OS X. To make it more portable
(e.g. usable on Windows), converting it to C is not terribly difficult.
Right now I'm using .plist(property lists), which is very common in OS
X, because you can read them back directly in to an Array or a
Dictionaty. It's a standardized XML File.
I'm a big fan of XML, but I'm also very much Intrested in having a
compatible package over all platforms.
I see advantage in XML, because it's a lot more flexible and accurat in
storing your Data - well it was defined exactly for that pourpose :)
My packages look like this:
~/Documents/QEMU/Freedos.qemu/configuration.plist
~/Documents/QEMU/Freedos.qemu/hda.img
~/Documents/QEMU/Freedos.qemu/saved.vm
~/Documents/QEMU/Freedos.qemu/thumbnail.png
or:
~/Documents/QEMU/ReactOS 15412.qemu/configuration.plist
~/Documents/QEMU/ReactOS 15412.qemu/hda.img
~/Documents/QEMU/ReactOS 15412.qemu/saved.vm
~/Documents/QEMU/ReactOS 15412.qemu/thumbnail.png
They can nicely be ziped.
A sample configuration .plist:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>-boot</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>-cdrom</key>
<string></string>
<key>-fda</key>
<string></string>
<key>-hda</key>
<string>/Users/mike/Documents/qemu/images/2gb_win2k.img</string>
<key>-m</key>
<string>128</string>
<key>cpu</key>
<string>0</string>
<key>custom</key>
<string></string>
<key>name</key>
<string>win2ksp4</string>
<key>status</key>
<string>shutdown</string>
</dict>
</plist>
I'm also looking into writing a converter for vpc packages, which are
very similar :)
Mike
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