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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 01/24/2010 05:23 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 01/24/2010 08:45 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 01/24/2010 03:22 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> The default value is ${prefix}/etc/qemu.  --sysconfdir can be used 
>>> to override
>>> the default to an absolute path.  The expectation is that when 
>>> installed to
>>> /usr, --sysconfdir=/etc/qemu will be used.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori<aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>> v2 ->  v3
>>>   - default sysconfdir to ${prefix}/etc on unix, ${prefix} on win32
>>>   - set confdir to ${sysconfdir}/qemu on unix, ${sysconfdir} on win32
>>
>> I'm not sure about the choice for Windows.  Do we want possibly a 
>> dozen of .conf files all in the same directory as the binaries, or 
>> maybe it's better to set sysconfdir = ${prefix}/conf, 
>> confdir=${sysconfdir} on Windows?
>
> I honestly don't know.  What's the normal thing to do with Windows?

The registry, I think.

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