Re: [PATCH 11/25] remove -writeconfig

2021-01-25 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 03:01:01PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 25/01/21 13:53, Markus Armbruster wrote: > > I love the "and how give me a config file for all that" idea, but I > > agree our -writeconfig is flawed. I hope we can bring it back in more > > useful shape. > > > > No deprecation g

Re: [PATCH 11/25] remove -writeconfig

2021-01-25 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 25/01/21 13:53, Markus Armbruster wrote: I love the "and how give me a config file for all that" idea, but I agree our -writeconfig is flawed. I hope we can bring it back in more useful shape. No deprecation grace period? That's a decision that we have to take overall once the whole serie

Re: [PATCH 11/25] remove -writeconfig

2021-01-25 Thread Markus Armbruster
Paolo Bonzini writes: > Like -set and -readconfig, it would not really be too hard to > extend -writeconfig to parsing mechanisms other than QemuOpts. > However, the uses of -writeconfig are substantially more > limited, as it is generally easier to write the configuration > by hand in the first