From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] QemuOpts: add -drive-set option
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:58:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A71A71E.3030101@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248950621-22249-5-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com>
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> The typical use case will be file (no filename quoting issues), i.e.
>
> -drive id=test,if=virtio
> -drive-set test.file=/vmdisk/test-virtio.img
>
I'm not a big fan of this syntax because you still end up with not
putting a filename as a single argument. I don't think it extends very
well to other option types either like -net.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-30 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-30 10:43 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] QemuOpts patches Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-30 10:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] QemuOpts: add some functions Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-30 10:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] QemuOpts: qemu_opts_parse: fix id= parsing Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-30 10:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] QemuOpts: make the drive id actually show up in "info block" Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-30 10:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] QemuOpts: add -drive-set option Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-30 13:58 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-07-30 14:35 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-30 18:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-30 10:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] QemuOpts: switch over -device Gerd Hoffmann
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