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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: RFC v2: blockdev_add & friends, brief rationale,
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <chellwig@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>

On 06/15/10 15:44, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/10/2010 08:45 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>
>>
>> * Our config file format is in INI syntax. QemuOpts correspond to
>> INI sections. Sections can't be nested, so recursive QemuOpts
>> don't translate.
>
> git (and probably others) use
>
> [a "b"]
> c = d
>
> for
>
> a.b.c=d

'b' is the id in qemu, i.e. -device driver=foo,id=bar,arg=value 
translates to

[device "bar"]
   driver = "foo"
   arg = "value"

in qemu.

Oh, and there is -set device.bar.arg2=value2 btw ...

cheers,
   Gerd