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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:13:16 +0200
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On 07/16/09 16:10, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Why "-drive.ID.NAME VALUE", "-net.ID.NAME VALUE" and so forth, i.e. one
>> option per object with parameters? Assuming the ID name space is flat,
>> a single option suffices. What about "-set ID.NAME=VALUE"?
>
> Looks attractive on the surface. Feels really difficult to implement :-)

Shouldn't be that horrible.  Look at QemuOpts in the drive patches v3 ;)

cheers,
   Gerd