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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: 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: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:42:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A5E06E9.9030104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A5DF875.2020808@us.ibm.com>

Anthony Liguori schrieb:
> 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
> -net nic,model=rtl8139,name=foo -net.foo.macaddr 00:11:43:55:44:22

Looks like a very verbose syntax. However, it's the cleanest suggestion
so far, IMHO. It might be perfectly reasonable to use for management
apps or for a single option (the file name) manually as needed. We'll
need to retain the old, more convenient syntax anyway for compatibility.
Your examples are mixed style already, so this is probably what you
intended anyway.

Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-15 16:45 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 [this message]
2009-07-15 17:47                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-16 10:57                               ` Amit Shah
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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