Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file

[Andreas Färber]

Am 14.05.2008 um 17:30 schrieb Javier Guerra:

> personally, i find shell scripts enough for setting up parameters.  a
> static config wouldn't bring much advantages.

For personal use they are okay, but for distributing a machine, you  
may need two or three platform-specific scripts for QEMU, or even  
worse one config file per frontend.

VMware has the advantage of allowing to distribute one .vmx file along  
with the image to facilitate its use. QEMU users can be happy if a raw  
or qcow2 image is provided at all and then need to figure out useful  
command line parameters (and whether to use qemu or qemu-system-x86_64  
or whichever).

Andreas