Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames

Amit Shah
2009-07-16T11:04:44Z

On (Wed) Jul 15 2009 [10:40:37], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Blue Swirl wrote:
>> Then how about something like:
>> -drive name=hda,if=ide,cache=off,file_is_arg -filearg foo.img
>> -drive name=vda,if=virtio,cache=writeback,file_comes_next -patharg foo.img
>> -drive name=sdb,if=scsi,unit=1,fnarg -fnarg boo.img
>>
>
> The explicit ordering part seems clunky to me. How about:
>
> -drive name=vda,if=virtio -drive.vda.file filename.img
>
> What's nice about this syntax is it generalizes well. You could have:
>
> -drive.vda.if virtio -drive.vda.file filename.img

How would you differentiate between multiple files? For example,
filename1.img should be the boot drive and filename2.img should be the
secondary drive.

Amit