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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Handling ':' on filenames
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:11:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090309211134.GB2812@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236608928-sup-8973@blackpad>

Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> The -drive option has a way to escape colons. For the filename
> "/tmp/a,b,c", you can use:
> 
>  -drive file=/tmp/a,,b,,c,format=qcow2
> 
> Not pretty, but it seems to work.

I wonder how you quote filenames from the monitor.

In my own management scripts I've taken to making a symlink with a
"safe" name to the real image file, and passing the safe name to KVM,
so that it's unambiguous.  Causes a bit of fun with qcow2 files, which
refer to their backing files relative to the symlink not the target
file.

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-09 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-06 21:28 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Handling ':' on filenames Eduardo Habkost
2009-03-08 11:28 ` Uri Lublin
2009-03-08 11:49   ` Stuart Brady
2009-03-09 14:32     ` Eduardo Habkost
2009-03-09 21:11       ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-03-09 14:21   ` Eduardo Habkost
2009-03-09 14:27   ` Eduardo Habkost
2009-03-10  3:59     ` Amit Shah

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