Re: [Qemu-devel] adding search to dhcp

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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On 2011-05-11 18:08, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com> wrote:
>>>>> I would expect the syntax to look like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> qemu -hda 1.qcow2 -net nick -net
>>>>> user,hostname=qemu,search=example.com,sales.example.com
>>>>
>>>> Comma escaping is needed but it seems like a reasonable feature to me.
>>>
>>> Comma escaping is ugly:
>>> -net user,hostname=qemu,search=example.com,,sales.example.com
>>>
>>> Could we have multiple search options instead?  Like this:
>>> -net user,hostname=qemu,search=example.com,search=sales.example.com
>>>
>>
>> How about:
>>
>> -net user,hostname=qemu,search="example.com,sales.example.com"
> 
> That does not work the way you'd expect:
> $ echo asdf=asdf,ok="this,is,a,test"
> asdf=asdf,ok=this,is,a,test
> 
> Also, let's not get into the business of matching quotes and passing
> them escaped on the shell.  That's just as ugly as escaping commas and
> more work.
> 
> I think the two options are using QEMU's typical comma escaping ',,'
> or specifying the option multiple times.  I'd go with comma escaping
> for consistency.  I'm not aware of any other option in QEMU that is
> specified multiple times.

-net user,hostfwd=...,hostfwd=...

Let's got for multiple specification, ',,' is just ugly IMHO.

Jan


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