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From: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for September 25th
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:03:59 +0530
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Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 04:51:15PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 25.09.2012 14:57, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> > qemu -device \
> >       isa-serial,index=0,chr=tcp://localhost:1025/?server=on&wait=off
> 
> Your examples kind of prove this: They aren't much shorter than what
> exists today, but they contain ? and &, which are nasty characters on
> the command line.

Right. '&' can't even be specified directly on command line since that will
result in qemu command being treated as a background job with anything after
'&' being discarded. I realized that '&' needs to be escaped as %26.

Regards,
Bharata.