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

[Jamie Lokier]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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.

That's fine for command lines.  I don't necessarily disagree with you.

But how do you propose to handle paths in monitor commands, when the
path contains a space/quote/whatever as it often does on Windows ("My
Documents", "Program Files")?

-- Jamie