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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:14:26 -0500
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Blue Swirl wrote:
> I bet this won't compile on win32.
>
> Instead of this (IMHO doomed) escape approach, maybe the filename
> parameter could be specified as the next argument, for example:
> -hda format=qcow2,blah,blah,filename_is_next_arg -hda "filename with
> funky characters like ',' ':' & '!'"
>   

-drive name=hda,if=ide,cache=off -hda foo.img
-drive name=vda,if=virtio,cache=writeback -vda foo.img
-drive name=sdb,if=scsi,unit=1 -sdb boo.img

But Paul has long objected to having -vda or -sda syntaxes.  I do agree 
though that the most sane thing to do is to make the filename an 
independent argument.

-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori