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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 01/25/2010 10:14 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 01/25/2010 03:05 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>>>>> 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.
>>
>> The registry would be used indeed to get the path or to override
>> defaults. However, what would be the default value (written in the
>> registry by the installer, or used by the program if the registry
>> value is absent)?
>
> ini-style configs are not at all uncommon on Windows. I also don't
> think it's that uncommon to store executables and config files
> side-by-side in a Program Files directory.

Indeed, that's what I'm saying.  The registry may hold a path to the
ini files, but you would still have to think of a sane default.  You
chose the binaries' directory, fine, that's not a huge deal---someone
who cares about Windows can step up and say what they think.

Paolo