[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/5] blockdev: Reject multiple definitions for the same drive

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 17.01.2011 19:31, schrieb Markus Armbruster:
> For reasons lost in the mist of time, we silently ignore multiple
> definitions for the same drive:
> 
>     $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -vnc :1 -S -monitor stdio -drive if=ide,index=1,file=tmp.qcow2 -drive if=ide,index=1,file=nonexistant
>     QEMU 0.13.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
>     (qemu) info block
>     ide0-hd1: type=hd removable=0 file=tmp.qcow2 backing_file=tmp.img ro=0 drv=qcow2 encrypted=0
> 
> With if=none, this can become quite confusing:
> 
>     $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -vnc :1 -S -monitor stdio -drive if=none,index=1,file=tmp.qcow2,id=eins -drive if=none,index=1,file=nonexistant,id=zwei -device ide-drive,drive=eins -device ide-drive,drive=zwei
>     qemu-system-x86_64: -device ide-drive,drive=zwei: Property 'ide-drive.drive' can't find value 'zwei'
> 
> The second -device fails, because it refers to drive zwei, which got
> silently ignored.
> 
> Make multiple drive definitions fail cleanly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

Dropped this one (and patch 5, which depends on it) from the block
branch again, it breaks -cdrom and probably other drives which are
created by default.

Kevin