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From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames
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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>

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