Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> One thought I had, is that it would be very nice to break up the -drive 
> file=foo.img,if=scsi syntax within the config file.  In general, I'm 
> thinking something like:
> 
> [drive]
> file=foo.img
> if=scsi
> 
> or:
> 
> drive {
>   file=foo.img
>   if=scsi
> }
> 
> or even:
> 
> drive:
>   file=foo.img
>   if=scsi
> 
> Basically, I'm looking for a syntax for sub-options.  This would be 
> useful for -drive or -net but I also think would lay the foundations for 
> specifying a full machine config.
> 
> It would get very unwieldy on the command line to have a large number of 
> suboptions but it works reasonably well within a config.

I prefer:

drive.file=foo.img
drive.if=scsi

Regards,

Fabrice.