I have a couple of feature requests that should be fairly simple for an
experienced C developer to implement:
First, allowing multiple folder support for built-in smb. By adding
parameters and formatting to the -smb attribute, the command-line could
be parsed to allow multiple folders to be supported in qemu:
# qemu hd.img -smb /home/user:home,/mnt/usbdrive:flashdrive
By using commas to delineate each share and a colon to separate the
path from the share name, you can easily allow a nearly unlimited
number of smb shares. In the above example, the folder "/home/user"
would be available a smb share "home" and "/mnt/usbdrive" would be
"flashdrive". The resulting smbd.conf generated would look something
like this:
[global]
private dir=/tmp/qemu-smb.903
smb ports=0
socket address=127.0.0.1
pid directory=/tmp/qemu-smb.903
lock directory=/tmp/qemu-smb.903
log file=/tmp/qemu-smb.903/log.smbd
smb passwd file=/tmp/qemu-smb.903/smbpasswd
security = share
[home]
path=/home/user
read only=no
guest ok=yes
[flashdrive]
path=/mnt/usbdrive
read only=no
guest ok=yes
If no ":" is found, it can default to "qemu" to provide simple
backwards compatibility. It's just a matter of parsing, which is
beyond my level of C programming. If QEMU were written in PHP, we'd be
golden! ;)
The second request may be a little trickier, but probably not too much.
The memory dump created by savevm is the same size as the amount of
memory used by QEMU for virtual memory. Since this is only loaded
once, wouldn't it make since to compress this file to save space?
Perhaps using zlib or some other portable library that could easily be
included in QEMU? It should be trivial to perform a check for a
compressed vm image for backwards compatibility.
I hope someone will find it in their heart to work on these at some
point. The former specifically would be helpful for a small project
that I am working on, but I think that they are also of general
usefulness.
Thanks,
- Dave
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