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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Anand Avati <aavati@redhat.com>,
	Vijay Bellur <vbellur@redhat.com>,
	Amar Tumballi <amarts@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] GlusterFS support in QEMU - v2
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:34:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <500D60F6.6020903@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSP0QXdLCV8FDAMLesZS4Y2tYZYLADUFj3-=5AyzviKjRAV3A@mail.gmail.com>

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On 07/23/2012 03:20 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>
>> So without the capability to pass custom options to block drivers, am I forced
>> to keep extending the file= with more and more options ?
>>
>> file=gluster:transport:server:port:volname:image ?
>>
>> Looks ugly and not easy to make any particular option optional. If needed I can
>> support this from GlusterFS backend.
> 
> Kevin, Markus: Any thoughts on passing options to block drivers?
> Encoding GlusterFS options into a "filename" string is pretty
> cumbersome.

On 07/23/2012 03:28 AM, ronnie sahlberg wrote:> Why not use
>
> -drive file=gluster://server[:port]/volname/image

At which point, options can fit into this URI scheme:

-drive file=gluster://server:port/volname/image?option1=foo&option2=bar

where anything after the ? of the URI can introduce whichever options
you need.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-23 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-21  8:29 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] GlusterFS support in QEMU - v2 Bharata B Rao
2012-07-21  8:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/2] qemu: Add a config option for GlusterFS as block backend Bharata B Rao
2012-07-21  8:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/2] block: gluster " Bharata B Rao
2012-07-22 15:38   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-07-23  8:32     ` Bharata B Rao
2012-07-23  9:06       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-07-21 12:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] GlusterFS support in QEMU - v2 Vijay Bellur
2012-07-21 13:04   ` Bharata B Rao
2012-07-22 14:42 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-07-23  8:50   ` Bharata B Rao
2012-07-23  9:20     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-07-23  9:34       ` ronnie sahlberg
2012-07-23  9:35         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-07-23 14:34       ` Eric Blake [this message]
2012-07-24  3:34         ` Bharata B Rao
2012-07-24 10:24       ` Kevin Wolf
2012-07-24 11:30       ` Markus Armbruster
2012-07-23  9:36     ` Vijay Bellur
2012-07-23  9:16 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-07-23  9:28   ` ronnie sahlberg

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