On Sep 23, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 23 September 2015 at 14:38, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:58 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> >>> On 10 September 2015 at 17:49, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Remove the open dialog code that runs when no arguments are supplied with >>>> QEMU. >>>> Not everyone needs a hard drive or cdrom to boot their target. A user might >>>> only >>>> need to use their target's bios to do work. With that said, this patch >>>> removes >>>> the unneeded open dialog code. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: John Arbuckle <programmingk...@gmail.com> >>> >>> OK, I think I agree we should drop this dialog box. For the benefit >>> of people who try to start QEMU from the Finder, could you make it >>> do "if we have one argument and it is '-psn' then bring up a dialog >>> box saying "Please start QEMU from the command line with appropriate >>> arguments" ? >> >> We could do this. I'm thinking a dialog box with a continue and a >> quit button. That ok? > > Do we have any machines where continuing to run with no arguments is actually > useful?
qemu-system-ppc does have openbios. This firmware does have a whole environment that the user could work on. I use to study the forth language using it.
