[Qemu-devel] Re: qemu fail to parse command line with "-pcidevice 00:19.0"

[Markus Armbruster]

Hidetoshi Seto <address@hidden> writes:

> (2010/06/24 15:08), Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Note to qemu-devel: this issue is qemu-kvm only.
>> 
>> "Hao, Xudong" <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> When assign one PCI device, qemu fail to parse the command line:
>>> qemu-system_x86 -smp 2 -m 1024 -hda /path/to/img -pcidevice host=00:19.0
>>> Error:
>>> qemu-system-x86_64: Parameter 'id' expects an identifier
>>> Identifiers consist of letters, digits, '-', '.', '_', starting with a 
>>> letter.
>>> pcidevice argument parse error; please check the help text for usage
>>> Could not add assigned device host=00:19.0
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/597932
>>>
>>> This issue caused by qemu-kvm commit 
>>> b560a9ab9be06afcbb78b3791ab836dad208a239.
>> 
>> The bug is in add_assigned_device():
>> 
>>     r = get_param_value(id, sizeof(id), "id", arg);
>>     if (!r)
>>         r = get_param_value(id, sizeof(id), "name", arg);
>>     if (!r)
>>         r = get_param_value(id, sizeof(id), "host", arg);
>> 
>> We end up with invalid ID "00:19.0".
>
> ... Are there any strong reason why we cannot use ':' in the identifier?

Paul Brook (cc'ed) objected.