Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

2007-08-19 Thread Christian Brunschen
On 19 Aug 2007, at 12:08, Avi Kivity wrote: Markus Hitter wrote: Am 19.08.2007 um 12:35 schrieb Avi Kivity: - this deviates from standard Unix (and Windows) practice. Arguably the OS X way is superior, but qemu is perhaps not the best vehicle to introduce it to other OSes. NeXTstep i

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

2007-08-19 Thread Avi Kivity
Markus Hitter wrote: Am 19.08.2007 um 12:35 schrieb Avi Kivity: - this deviates from standard Unix (and Windows) practice. Arguably the OS X way is superior, but qemu is perhaps not the best vehicle to introduce it to other OSes. NeXTstep introduced this into the Unix world and GN

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

2007-08-19 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 19.08.2007 um 12:35 schrieb Avi Kivity: - this deviates from standard Unix (and Windows) practice. Arguably the OS X way is superior, but qemu is perhaps not the best vehicle to introduce it to other OSes. NeXTstep introduced this into the Unix world and GNUstep uses it today. So, th

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

2007-08-19 Thread Avi Kivity
Christian Brunschen wrote: On 17 Aug 2007, at 13:40, Avi Kivity wrote: It's not easy to use: if you move the image, you need to move the file. I'd like to have exactly one entity to worry about when using a virtual machine. As I wrote previously, there is already such a thing on every modern

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

2007-08-17 Thread Christian Brunschen
On 17 Aug 2007, at 13:40, Avi Kivity wrote: It's not easy to use: if you move the image, you need to move the file. I'd like to have exactly one entity to worry about when using a virtual machine. As I wrote previously, there is already such a thing on every modern operating system, one

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

2007-08-17 Thread Avi Kivity
Ben Taylor wrote: > "Jorge Lucángeli Obes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

2007-08-16 Thread Dan Shearer
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 01:05:41PM -0400, Ben Taylor wrote: > Personally, I'm not sure why we wouldn't just write out the command line > data to a file tied to the primary image file What about a compatible change to the file format: the last 1024 bytes are either undefined, or, if a certain mark

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

2007-08-16 Thread Ben Taylor
"Jorge Lucángeli Obes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. Everythin

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

2007-08-16 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 16.08.2007 um 01:52 schrieb Mark Williamson: I've missed some of the discussion, but wouldn't tar be an obvious choice? It can expand easily out to a directory hierarchy containing config file and multiple virtual disk files, there are standard tools that can manipulate it and standar

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

2007-08-15 Thread Avi Kivity
Mark Williamson wrote: >> 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 >> crea

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

2007-08-15 Thread Mark Williamson
> 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 f

[Qemu-devel] Making qemu images executable (and store command line arguments in them =P)

2007-08-15 Thread Jorge Lucángeli Obes
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