On 7/15/09, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- 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