From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60127) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpGb7-0001yP-C7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 09:39:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpGb6-0005UD-Gb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2015 09:39:49 -0400 From: Markus Armbruster References: <1430418196-8691-1-git-send-email-dslutz@verizon.com> <55427F5A.5090608@redhat.com> <20150430201534.GB3545@noname.redhat.com> <5542BAA2.3060802@Verizon.com> <20150504110841.GE3676@noname.str.redhat.com> Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 15:39:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20150504110841.GE3676@noname.str.redhat.com> (Kevin Wolf's message of "Mon, 4 May 2015 13:08:41 +0200") Message-ID: <87383ca2ci.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Kevin Wolf Cc: Paolo Bonzini , qemu block , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , Don Slutz Kevin Wolf 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. [...]