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From: | Anthony Liguori |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4][RFC] Add logic to QEMU to read command line options from qcow2 images |
Date: | Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:32:45 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) |
Avi Kivity wrote:
Anthony Liguori wrote:If you're looking for a low-end solution, another possibility would be having a "new" file format which consisted of:#!/path/to/qemu [<args> ...] <nl> <standard disk image>And then make the appropriate changes to QEMU such that it can skip the first line in a disk image file. This has a few nice side effects. The disk image is directly executable and it makes it very clear to the user that they have to trust the disk image. The other nice thing is that it would work with file formats other than qcow2.Well, it would be nice to align the disk image to a sector boundary (or, better, a page boundary). But yes, a very good idea.
That has the very nice side effect of allowing you to edit the command line with a text editor provided you don't cross the sector boundary. Filling with spaces would be pretty nice.
Regards, Anthony Liguori
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