Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] configure: add --guest-agent-statedir

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:32:21 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

> Il 03/10/2012 19:24, Luiz Capitulino ha scritto:
> > Defaults to /var/run.
> 
> Please add instead --localstatedir (defaulting to ${prefix}/var), and
> make the guest agent's directory /run inside that one.  Packagers
> already know to override --localstatedir=/var, in some cases macros even
> do it automatically.

Well, that was my first version but I discarded it for two reasons.

First, --localstatedir is a host-side setting but qemu-ga is not supposed to
run in the host. What if I want a different setting for guests?

Second, having /run appended to --localstatedir (or whatever we choose) may
have a bad effect if qemu is built with --localstatedir=, where qemu-ga's
state will be "/run" (good for Fedora, but might not be good for other
distros or other unixes).

I'm not strong about this though, it just was my reasoning while doing this.