From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36437) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZx07-0005PV-EN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2017 04:51:26 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZx06-0007e0-JE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2017 04:51:23 -0500 From: Markus Armbruster References: <87bmukmlau.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> <20170203172520.GA13825@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2017 10:51:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20170203172520.GA13825@redhat.com> (Richard W. M. Jones's message of "Fri, 3 Feb 2017 17:25:20 +0000") Message-ID: <87vasq708e.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Non-flat command line option argument syntax List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Richard W.M. Jones" Cc: Kevin Wolf , Peter Krempa , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org "Richard W.M. Jones" writes: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 08:42:33PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> There's also the -drive file=json:... syntax. It's a bad fit for >> QemuOpts, because QemuOpts and JSON fight for the comma. I'd show you >> if I could get it to work. > > I think this refers to the json: syntax for qemu URIs? The json: pseudo-protocol, i.e. "file names" starting with a "json:" protocol prefix. I think we mean the same. > Anyway we're using this in virt-v2v > (https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/v2v/input_libvirt_xen_ssh.ml) > > It's very useful, please try not to break it! We're not going to take the json: pseudo-protocol away. Perhaps we'll deprecate it at some point, but even then it'll stay for a sufficiently generous grace period.