Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] QemuOpts: add -drive-set option

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On 07/30/09 15:58, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> The typical use case will be file (no filename quoting issues), i.e.
>>
>> -drive id=test,if=virtio
>> -drive-set test.file=/vmdisk/test-virtio.img
>
> I'm not a big fan of this syntax because you still end up with not
> putting a filename as a single argument.

You can take everything after '=' as-is though, so the parsing/quoting 
issues are gone nevertheless.

> I don't think it extends very
> well to other option types either like -net.

Problem with the "-drive.$id.$arg $value" syntax suggested by you is 
that the qemu option parser can handle fixed -option strings only.

Other ideas?

cheers,
   Gerd