On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 11/22/2013 01:51 PM, Jordan Justen wrote: > >> Tangentially related idea: if the user specifies -pflash to a >> non-existent file, then QEMU could copy 'pflash-$(arch).bin' from the >> roms folder into that file, and then the use it for the flash. It >> could make using a flash almost as easy as using the default bios. > > But that image won't be auto-updated the next time the master is > updated.
Yes. We've decided to call that a feature. :) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-07/msg02507.html > Besides, under sVirt protections of libvirt, libvirt would > have to pre-create the file (because libvirt intentionally denies qemu > the ability to create files), so libvirt would have to be aware of the > default. It's not much harder to make libvirt aware of handling a split > image, and a split image is easier to handle than having to copy the > default into a destination. Well, admittedly, this idea is to optimize for qemu command line ease-of-use. So I seem to be targeting a niche market. :) But I still like to run qemu directly. -Jordan
