Il 25/09/2012 17:33, Bharata B Rao ha scritto: >>> qemu -device \ >>> > > isa-serial,index=0,chr=tcp://localhost:1025/?server=on&wait=off >> > >> > Your examples kind of prove this: They aren't much shorter than what >> > exists today, but they contain ? and &, which are nasty characters on >> > the command line. > Right. '&' can't even be specified directly on command line since that will > result in qemu command being treated as a background job with anything after > '&' being discarded. I realized that '&' needs to be escaped as %26. No, %26 is escaped at the URL level, i.e. it doesn't start a new argumnt. If you need to pass '&' in the shell, simply use quoting or write it \&. Paolo -- 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