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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, alex@csgraf.de, nolan@sigbus.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Then I'd prefer we add a protocol=XXX option for magic protocols. This 
> would be easier to use & clearer than requiring escaping of magic 
> characters, eg
>
>    -drive file=/some/path:with:colons,protocol=file
>    -drive file=http://some/path,protocol=uri
>
> For compatability, we could make it such that if protocol=XXX was left out,
> it could try and "guess" it, in same way QEMU does if format=XXX is left out
> for content format.
>   

How about

  -drive file=file:///some/path:with:colons?

Libvirt would use this unconditionally, command-line users can choose.

-- 
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