Re: [PATCH 3/3 V2] kvm tools: Add cmdline options for loading multiple images

[Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 08:51 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> 
> On 05/04/11 07:45, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > This is a simple cmdline addition to allow loading multiple images.
> > perf's cmdline parser doesn't support having multiple args
> > with the same name (i.e. --image <img1> --image <img2>), so
> > we have to choose either to extend the parser, or find a diiferent
> > way to assign multiple images.
> > 
> > Sample cmdline for loading 2 images:
> > ./kvm run --image=image1.raw --readonly --image2=image2.raw --readonly2
> 
> syntax is getting a bit unwieldy. Why not use a scheme similar to qemu
> and concatenate related arguments into one and handle multiple usages?
> e.g., --image=image1.raw,ro --image=image2.raw,ro

That'll probably how it'll end up being. Currently the cmdline parser
doesn't support it and I didn't want to mix parser changes with
virtio-blk patch.

This patch should just allow testing of the multiple virtio-blk feature.

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Sasha.