On 7/15/09, Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Problem: It is impossible to feed filenames with the character colon because > qemu interprets such names as a protocol. For example filename scsi:0, is > interpreted as a protocol by name "scsi". > --- a/block/raw-posix.c > +++ b/block/raw-posix.c > +static int qemu_open(const char *filename, int flags, ...) > --- a/block/raw-win32.c > +++ b/block/raw-win32.c > + fd = qemu_open(filename, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_BINARY, 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 ',' ':' & '!'" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
