Re: [PATCH] support colon in filenames

Amit Shah
2009-06-24T17:27:01Z

On (Wed) Jun 24 2009 [09:58:59], Ram Pai wrote:
> Problem: It is impossible to feed filenames with the character colon because
> qemu interprets such names as a protocol. For example a filename scsi:0,
> is interpreted as a protocol by name "scsi".
>
> This patch allows users to espace colon characters. For example the above filename
> can now be expressed as 'scsi\:0'

Eduardo (CC'ed) had a patch as well:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/39229/focus=39229

Amit