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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/10] QemuOpts: add -set option
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:01:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A732385.1030806@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249035941-4562-6-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com>

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> One use case will be file for drives (no filename quoting issues), i.e.
>
> 	-drive id=test,if=virtio
> 	-set drive.test.file=/vmdisk/test-virtio.img
>
> It will work for any other option (assuming handled by QemuOpts) though.
> Except for id= for obvious reasons ;).
>   

How can we make it work for id?

That is, it would be good to be able to fully define the drive via 
-set.  I think this is necessary to introduce a config file.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-31 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-31 10:25 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/10] QemuOpts+qdev patches Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-31 10:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/10] QemuOpts: add some functions Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-31 14:54   ` Luiz Capitulino
2009-07-31 10:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/10] QemuOpts: qemu_opts_parse: fix id= parsing Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-31 10:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/10] QemuOpts: make the drive id actually show up in "info block" Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-31 10:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/10] QemuOpts: create qemu-config.h Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-31 10:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/10] QemuOpts: add -set option Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-31 17:01   ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-08-03  8:44     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-31 10:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/10] QemuOpts: switch over -device Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-31 10:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/10] constify drive_get_by_id arg Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-31 10:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/10] add -drive if=none Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-31 10:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/10] qdev/prop: add drive property Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-31 10:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/10] qdev-ify virtio-blk Gerd Hoffmann

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