On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:56:31PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:

Hi All,

I was recently asked about the possibility of libvirt creating a config file and then invoking qemu with '-readconfig <file>' instead of passing all arguments on the command line. The primary reason for this request is a more readable ps output and the ability to inspect the arguments in a file (with one arg per line) instead of one long line.

Note: you can already inspect all the arguments in a file /var/log/libvirt/qemu/$GUESTNAME.log always contains the args

I was certain there was a similar request in the past, but haven't had much luck searching the mail archives or with google. Has this been discussed previously? If so, any pointers or summary of the outcome? If not, what are folks' opinion about this?

I guess my answer depends on how much work it would involve ? If we could use all our existing command line generator code & simply write the result to a file, that'd be reasonable. If we had to change all our code to write stuff in a different format, I'd be less enthusiastic. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|