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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>, Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, quintela@redhat.com

Il 25/09/2012 14:57, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
> The call is a bit late for Bharata but I think copying is the way to go.
> 
> Something I've been thinking about since this discussion started
> though.  Maybe we could standardize on using URIs as short-hand syntax
> for backends.
> 
> For example:
> 
> qemu -hda file:///foo.img
> 
> Or:
> 
> qemu -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=tap:///vnet0?script=/etc/qemu-ifup
> 
> Or:
> 
> qemu -device \
>       isa-serial,index=0,chr=tcp://localhost:1025/?server=on&wait=off
> 
> This works particularly well with a "treat unknown options as -device"
> mechanism so that we could do:
> 
> qemu -isa-serial chr=tcp://localhost:1025/?server=on&wait=off
> 
> We could even introduce a secondary implied option to shorten this
> further to:
> 
> qemu -isa-serial tcp://localhost:1025/?server=on&wait=off

Interesting idea...

Paolo