[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#645334: support for manipulating the command line directly

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Fri Oct 14 15:31:49 UTC 2011


On 10/14/2011 11:21 AM, martin f krafft wrote:
> Package: virt-manager
> Version: 0.9.0-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: upstream
> 
> I know that libvirt tries to abstract virtualisation, and the
> following request is contrary to this goal. However, there are times
> when one needs to influence the VM in ways that are not
> abstractable. Hence, in the interest of usability, it would be nice
> of virt-manager would export the functionality described here:
> 
>   http://blog.vmsplice.net/2011/04/how-to-pass-qemu-command-line-options.html
> 

I understand the motivation, but command line passthrough is an explicitly
unsupported interface so not something we would ever expose in an end user
tool like virt-manager.

People that need that functionality should be sufficient enough power users to
handle it via the command line anyways.






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