From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWW9w-0005HI-Pj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:59:04 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWW9r-0005Dp-Oi for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:59:04 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34958 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWW9r-0005Dh-FM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:58:59 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f191.google.com ([209.85.210.191]:50426) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWW9r-00055u-3l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:58:59 -0400 Received: by yxe29 with SMTP id 29so1148236yxe.18 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:58:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A71A71E.3030101@codemonkey.ws> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:58:54 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] QemuOpts: add -drive-set option References: <1248950621-22249-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <1248950621-22249-5-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1248950621-22249-5-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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