From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWvUd-0002Uk-Lu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:02:07 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWvUZ-0002Qh-0v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:02:07 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36645 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWvUY-0002Q3-PD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:02:02 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com ([209.85.217.220]:61435) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWvUX-0000lv-VA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:02:02 -0400 Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so9002402gxk.10 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:02:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A732385.1030806@codemonkey.ws> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:01:57 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/10] QemuOpts: add -set option References: <1249035941-4562-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <1249035941-4562-6-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1249035941-4562-6-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: > 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