From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
qemu block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] vl.c: Since the help says that 'disk_image' is a raw hard disk image, pass format=raw
Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 15:39:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87383ca2ci.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150504110841.GE3676@noname.str.redhat.com> (Kevin Wolf's message of "Mon, 4 May 2015 13:08:41 +0200")
Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> writes:
> Am 01.05.2015 um 01:28 hat Don Slutz geschrieben:
[...]
>> So do you want a more complex patch that allows the format to be
>> specified?
>>
>> Only for 'disk_image'?
>>
>> Include -hd* ?
>
> I'm afraid that there is no nice way to improve the plain 'disk_image'
> case. You would have to add another option, and then it's not any better
> than -hda and friends any more.
>
> -hda in turn could be extended to take additional options (i.e. it
> becomes something like -drive with implied index=0), but then there's
> little reason not to use -drive.
Would likely break images with ',' in their name.
[...]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-04 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-30 18:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] vl.c: Since the help says that 'disk_image' is a raw hard disk image, pass format=raw Don Slutz
2015-04-30 19:15 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-30 19:17 ` Eric Blake
2015-04-30 20:15 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-04-30 23:28 ` Don Slutz
2015-05-04 11:08 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-05-04 13:39 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2015-05-04 14:17 ` Kevin Wolf
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