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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.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 07/16/09 15:43, Markus Armbruster wrote:

> Why "-drive.ID.NAME VALUE", "-net.ID.NAME VALUE" and so forth, i.e. one
> option per object with parameters?  Assuming the ID name space is flat,
> a single option suffices.  What about "-set ID.NAME=VALUE"?

Hmm, I think we will have multiple namespaces.  At least one for guest 
devices and one for host backends.  Probably also different namespaces 
for different kinds of host backends (disk / net / char / ...).

-set or maybe -drive-set id.name= should be easier to handle then 
-drive.id.name with qemu's command line option parser.

cheers,
   Gerd