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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, linuxram@us.ibm.com, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.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 16:10, Anthony Liguori 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"?
>
> Looks attractive on the surface. Feels really difficult to implement :-)

Shouldn't be that horrible.  Look at QemuOpts in the drive patches v3 ;)

cheers,
   Gerd