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 way of doing

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

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. Everything keeps

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

[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

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 format

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 creating a new