Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: support colon in filenames

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Jan Kiszka wrote:
We would still have to deal with the fact that so far '\' had no special
meaning on Windows - except that is was the well-known path separator.
So redefining its meaning would break a bit...

That's the problem.  You will break existing Windows users.

I know this goes against the current momentum in qemu, but overloading one option with a bunch of parameters seems absolutely silly to me.

IMHO, -drive file=foo.img,if=virtio,cache=off should have always been at least three parameters.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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