From a9576fb3a4a69ba5ee7099bf3dafa4671ec24684 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Wimpress <martin@wimpress.org>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 14:49:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: capture and displaying the PID when launching a VM

---
 quickemu | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/quickemu b/quickemu
index f86b7df..bc3dc88 100755
--- a/quickemu
+++ b/quickemu
@@ -1311,8 +1311,9 @@ function vm_boot() {
         echo "${QEMU}" "${SHELL_ARGS}" "2>/dev/null" >> "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.sh"
         sed -i -e 's/ -/ \\\n    -/g' "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.sh"
         ${QEMU} "${args[@]}" &> "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.log" &
+        local VM_PID=$!
         sleep 0.25
-        echo " - Process:  Starting ${VM} as ${VMNAME} ($(cat "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.pid"))"
+        echo " - Process:  Starting ${VM} as ${VMNAME} (${VM_PID})"
     fi
 }