From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36128) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZhc3-0003H2-Rq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2017 12:25:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZhc2-0002fF-PM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2017 12:25:31 -0500 Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 17:25:20 +0000 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Message-ID: <20170203172520.GA13825@redhat.com> References: <87bmukmlau.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bmukmlau.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Non-flat command line option argument syntax List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Kevin Wolf , Peter Krempa , qemu-block@nongnu.org On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 08:42:33PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: > There's also the -drive file=json:... syntax. It's a bad fit for > QemuOpts, because QemuOpts and JSON fight for the comma. I'd show you > if I could get it to work. I think this refers to the json: syntax for qemu URIs? Anyway we're using this in virt-v2v (https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/v2v/input_libvirt_xen_ssh.ml) It's very useful, please try not to break it! Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/