Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts

[Programmingkid]

On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:11 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:

> * Peter Maydell (address@hidden) wrote:
>> On 28 September 2015 at 20:43, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Sep 28, 2015, at 3:29 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Programmingkid <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>>                                                        A menu item
>>>>> that displays a file open dialog is very easy to use. The user just 
>>>>> selects
>>>>> a file and QEMU loads and runs all the commands in it. This feature
>>>>> would make QEMU easier to use. It would also make QEMU easily
>>>>> expandable. Typing long commands in the monitor is difficult and
>>>>> error prone. Saving these commands in a file would make it much
>>>>> easier for the user. An example command someone could put in a
>>>>> file is sending Control-Alt-Delete to the emulator. Another command
>>>>> could be mounting an image file. This feature would make things
>>>>> much easier for the user.
>>>> 
>>>> You didn't mention you're talking about a *GUI* feature.
>>> 
>>> I'm thinking it would be easier to send in the patch rather than talk about
>>> what this feature could be.
>> 
>> I think Markus and I are trying to save you that effort by
>> pointing out that this is a VM management layer feature,
>> not a core QEMU feature.
> 
> OK, so I'm going to agree with Programmingkid here.
> I think this would be a useful feature to have in QEMU; I've
> got gratuitous hacks in some of my test scripts that work
> around it not being there.
> 
> I think there are two possible things, both of which seem fairly
> easy:
>  1) Add a -chardev from file that works in this case
>     (I don't think the current chardev file works does it?)
> 
>  2) A 'source' like command.

My idea was to just send the command to the monitor as if the user typed them 
up.