Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 0/8] Make qemu-img/qemu-nbd/qemu-io CLI more flexible

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 17.02.2016 um 11:10 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
>   v6: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg03141.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