On 07/15/09 17:14, Anthony Liguori 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.
Jumping in here as I'm looking into this from the qdev-ifying point of
view ;)
I'd like to move to a model where -drive adds host-side state only and
the actual disks are added via -device, i.e. something like
-drive if=none,name=foo,file=/path/to/file
-device virtio-blk-pci,drive=foo
Instead of using '-drive if=none' we could use some other syntax where
the filename can be passed as separate argument. Can switches have two
arguments? If so, maybe this:
-hostdrive $file $options
comments?
cheers,
Gerd
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