Re: [Qemu-devel] drive_add: file names with spaces

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Eric Blake (eblake@redhat.com) wrote:
> On 10/30/2017 03:32 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > Now, the real challenge is how to deal with a filename with a comma in;
> >    drive_add 1 "file=foo,bar"
> >    Could not open 'foo': No such file or directory
> > 
> 
> Does HMP use the QemuOpts parser?  If so, try:
> 
> drive_add 1 "file=foo,,bar"
> 
> (that is, reproduce the double-comma escaping mechanism that we use on
> the command line).
> 
> But I haven't personally tried this, so I have no idea if it will help.

Ah yes it does;  I never knew that worked.

Dave

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