On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:11 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Peter Maydell (peter.mayd...@linaro.org) wrote: >> On 28 September 2015 at 20:43, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 28, 2015, at 3:29 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >>> >>>> Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> writes: >>>>> A menu item >>>>> that displays a file open dialog is very easy to use. The user just >>>>> selects >>>>> a file and QEMU loads and runs all the commands in it. This feature >>>>> would make QEMU easier to use. It would also make QEMU easily >>>>> expandable. Typing long commands in the monitor is difficult and >>>>> error prone. Saving these commands in a file would make it much >>>>> easier for the user. An example command someone could put in a >>>>> file is sending Control-Alt-Delete to the emulator. Another command >>>>> could be mounting an image file. This feature would make things >>>>> much easier for the user. >>>> >>>> You didn't mention you're talking about a *GUI* feature. >>> >>> I'm thinking it would be easier to send in the patch rather than talk about >>> what this feature could be. >> >> I think Markus and I are trying to save you that effort by >> pointing out that this is a VM management layer feature, >> not a core QEMU feature. > > OK, so I'm going to agree with Programmingkid here. > I think this would be a useful feature to have in QEMU; I've > got gratuitous hacks in some of my test scripts that work > around it not being there. > > I think there are two possible things, both of which seem fairly > easy: > 1) Add a -chardev from file that works in this case > (I don't think the current chardev file works does it?) > > 2) A 'source' like command.
My idea was to just send the command to the monitor as if the user typed them up.
