From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxram@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>,
Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:27:05 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090716105705.GB14243@amit-x200.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A5DF875.2020808@us.ibm.com>
On (Wed) Jul 15 2009 [10:40:37], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Blue Swirl wrote:
>> Then how about something like:
>> -drive name=hda,if=ide,cache=off,file_is_arg -filearg foo.img
>> -drive name=vda,if=virtio,cache=writeback,file_comes_next -patharg foo.img
>> -drive name=sdb,if=scsi,unit=1,fnarg -fnarg boo.img
>>
>
> The explicit ordering part seems clunky to me. How about:
>
> -drive name=vda,if=virtio -drive.vda.file filename.img
>
> What's nice about this syntax is it generalizes well. You could have:
>
> -drive.vda.if virtio -drive.vda.file filename.img
How would you differentiate between multiple files? For example,
filename1.img should be the boot drive and filename2.img should be the
secondary drive.
Amit
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-16 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-06-24 17:57 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] support colon in filenames Ram Pai
2009-06-25 9:14 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-25 17:52 ` Ram Pai
2009-06-26 6:53 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-26 6:38 ` [Qemu-devel] rev1 " Ram Pai
2009-06-26 7:45 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2009-06-27 0:41 ` [Qemu-devel] rev2 " Ram Pai
2009-07-02 5:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: " Ram Pai
2009-07-02 8:52 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-02 12:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-02 13:18 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-08 8:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev4: " Ram Pai
2009-07-08 15:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-07-10 13:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 7:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev5: " Ram Pai
2009-07-15 9:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-07-15 17:03 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-15 18:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 18:44 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-15 21:04 ` [Qemu-devel] qcow2 relative paths (was: [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames) Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 21:14 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: qcow2 relative paths Jan Kiszka
2009-07-16 2:28 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: qcow2 relative paths (was: [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames) Ram Pai
2009-07-16 7:38 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: qcow2 relative paths Kevin Wolf
2009-07-16 7:51 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-16 7:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev6: support colon in filenames Ram Pai
2009-07-17 23:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev7: " Ram Pai
2009-07-21 12:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2009-08-06 6:27 ` Ram Pai
2009-08-06 6:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev8: " Ram Pai
2009-07-15 15:04 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev5: " Blue Swirl
2009-07-15 15:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 15:29 ` Blue Swirl
2009-07-15 15:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 16:42 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-15 17:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-16 10:57 ` Amit Shah [this message]
2009-07-16 13:43 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-07-16 14:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-16 15:13 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-16 15:12 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-15 15:34 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-15 15:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 15:52 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-15 16:03 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-15 16:08 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-16 7:39 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-16 7:43 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-15 18:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: " Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 20:54 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-15 21:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 21:42 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-15 22:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 22:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 22:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 22:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 22:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-16 0:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-16 7:20 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-16 7:16 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-16 8:01 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-16 23:53 ` Paul Brook
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