Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 01/22] QemuOpts: fix a bug in QemuOpts when setting an option twice

[Anthony Liguori]

On 06/08/2010 09:38 AM, Paul Brook wrote:
> > The problem I was trying to address can be seen with something like:
> >
> > -drive file=foo.img,if=virtio,file=bar.img
> >
> > You get no error, and foo.img is what gets used.  It's fair to argue
> > this is a silly use case but what I'm trying to achieve is to make it
> > possible to do:
> >
> > -drive file=foo.img,if=virtio,id=bar -drive file=bar.img,id=bar
> >      
> IMO these should both behave consistently. I'd prefer that both of are errors.
>    

It's fairly common that the last specified argument is what's 
respected.  For instance, if you do qemu -m 512M -m 1G, you'll get 1G of 
memory.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paul
>