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


From: Peter Maydell
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] feature idea: allow user to run custom scripts
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:53:50 +0100

On 30 September 2015 at 09:14, Dr. David Alan Gilbert
<address@hidden> wrote:
> * Markus Armbruster (address@hidden) wrote:
>> In my opinion, QEMU should leave them to separate GUI shells, because
>> doing everything in QEMU distracts from our core mission and we don't
>> have GUI expertise[*].  One more point: building in the GUI is
>> problematic when you don't trust the guest, because then you really want
>> to run QEMU with least privileges.
>
> Given that we have a built in GUI then I can see people wanting to expand
> it.

Right, but where do you draw the line? We clearly don't have the
active maintainer and review capacity to do anything serious with
"ui/" (MAINTAINERS lists everything except SPICE as Odd Fixes).

This is why I tend to agree with Markus' opinion here: we should
provide enough graphical UI to make raw QEMU minimally usable,
and leave further user-friendliness to other projects which have
more direct interest in that.

If we had more regular contributors who were actively interested
in improving our UI layer my opinion might be different.

thanks
-- PMM



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