From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Wolf Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:34:33 +0200 Message-ID: <4A5DF709.8000404@redhat.com> References: <1245862739.6278.7.camel@localhost> <1245998284.6278.99.camel@localhost> <4A447C8D.5000104@kevin-wolf.de> <1246063310.6278.115.camel@localhost> <1246511321.6429.31.camel@localhost> <4A4C754D.10109@redhat.com> <4A4CAD86.9020607@us.ibm.com> <4A4CB39F.5070506@redhat.com> <1247041831.6297.12.camel@localhost> <1247644283.14246.3.camel@localhost> <4A5DF252.50408@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Blue Swirl , linuxram@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jan Kiszka , kvm-devel , Paul Brook To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:49431 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755485AbZGOPhw (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:37:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A5DF252.50408@us.ibm.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Anthony Liguori schrieb: > 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 So the names would need to be out of some reserved namespace like hdX, sdX and vdX only? Or can I choose freely and call my disks "net" and "vnc" and have them conflict with the respective existing options? Also, when discussing the syntax, don't forget that there also is -usbdevice disk: which would need to be changed in some way, too. Kevin