Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: Storing command line options in images

[Segher Boessenkool]

> > > When I read Avi's TODO, I basically thought about getting rid of the
> > > long command lines I had to store in scripts. I wanted to write that
> > > command line once, and then forgetting about it, until I needed to
> > > change it.
> >
> > Instead of inventing great and wonderfully complicated schemes, the
> > most sensible way I can think of is to recycle a feature which is now
> > implemented in the GNU toolchain, and apparently stems from Windows:
> >
> >   qemu @qemu.cfg
> >
> > where qemu.cfg is a file which contains the command line arguments.
> > (This is also low-maintenance, as it allows to re-use the existing
>
> IMHO, it should be implemented at the shell level, not qemu level, 
> like "*" is.

The shell _does_ implement it:  qemu `cat qemu.cfg`  :-)

If you want "@" anyway, you can pick up the code from libiberty
(or just build with libiberty).


Segher