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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 00/10] Make qemu-img/qemu-nbd/qemu-io CLI mor
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 00/10] Make qemu-img/qemu-nbd/qemu-io CLI more flexible |
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Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:53:27 +0100 |
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Am 15.02.2016 um 15:33 hat Daniel P. Berrange geschrieben:
> This series of patches expands the syntax of the qemu-img,
> qemu-nbd and qemu-io commands to make them more flexible.
>
> v0: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-10/msg04365.html
> v1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg04014.html
> v2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg04354.html
> v3: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg03381.html
> v4: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg04984.html
> v5: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2016-02/msg00022.html
>
> First all three gain a --object parameter, which allows
> instantiation of user creatable object types. The immediate
> use case is to allow for creation of the 'secret' object
> type to pass passwords for curl, iscsi and rbd drivers.
> For qemu-nbd this will also be needed to create TLS
> certificates for encryption support.
>
> Then all three gain a '--image-opts' parameter which causes
> the positional filenames to be interepreted as option strings
> rather tha nplain filenames. This avoids the need to use the
> JSON syntax, or to add custom CLI args for each block backend
> option that exists. The immediate use case is to allow the
> user to specify the ID of the 'secret' object they just created.
>
> Finally, there are a few small cleanup patches
Thanks, applied to the block branch.
Kevin
- [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 02/10] qemu-io: add support for --object command line arg, (continued)
- [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 02/10] qemu-io: add support for --object command line arg, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/02/15
- [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 01/10] qom: add helpers for UserCreatable object types, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/02/15
- [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 03/10] qemu-nbd: add support for --object command line arg, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/02/15
- [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 04/10] qemu-img: add support for --object command line arg, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/02/15
- [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 08/10] qemu-nbd: don't overlap long option values with short options, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/02/15
- [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 06/10] qemu-nbd: allow specifying image as a set of options args, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/02/15
- [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 05/10] qemu-io: allow specifying image as a set of options args, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/02/15
- [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 09/10] qemu-nbd: use no_argument/required_argument constants, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/02/15
- [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 10/10] qemu-io: use no_argument/required_argument constants, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/02/15
- [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 07/10] qemu-img: allow specifying image as a set of options args, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/02/15
- Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v6 00/10] Make qemu-img/qemu-nbd/qemu-io CLI more flexible,
Kevin Wolf <=