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From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] support colon in filenames
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:56:59 +0530
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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