Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:40:37AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Blue Swirl wrote:
>> Then how about something like:
>>  -drive name=hda,if=ide,cache=off,file_is_arg -filearg foo.img
>>  -drive name=vda,if=virtio,cache=writeback,file_comes_next  -patharg  foo.img
>>  -drive name=sdb,if=scsi,unit=1,fnarg -fnarg boo.img
>>   
>
> The explicit ordering part seems clunky to me.  How about:
>
> -drive name=vda,if=virtio -drive.vda.file filename.img
>
> What's nice about this syntax is it generalizes well.  You could have:
>
> -drive.vda.if virtio -drive.vda.file filename.img
> -net nic,model=rtl8139,name=foo -net.foo.macaddr 00:11:43:55:44:22

nice.