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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:29:01 +0300
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames
From: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
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To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, linuxram@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>

On 7/15/09, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Blue Swirl wrote:
>
> > I bet this won't compile on win32.
> >
> > Instead of this (IMHO doomed) escape approach, maybe the filename
> > parameter could be specified as the next argument, for example:
> > -hda format=qcow2,blah,blah,filename_is_next_arg -hda
> "filename with
> > funky characters like ',' ':' & '!'"
> >
> >
>
>  -drive name=hda,if=ide,cache=off -hda foo.img
>  -drive name=vda,if=virtio,cache=writeback -vda foo.img
>  -drive name=sdb,if=scsi,unit=1 -sdb boo.img
>
>  But Paul has long objected to having -vda or -sda syntaxes.  I do agree
> though that the most sane thing to do is to make the filename an independent
> argument.

Then how about something like:
 -drive name=hda,if=ide,cache=off,file_is_arg -filearg foo.img
 -drive name=vda,if=virtio,cache=writeback,file_comes_next  -patharg  foo.img
 -drive name=sdb,if=scsi,unit=1,fnarg -fnarg boo.img