Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for September 25th

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 07:57:53AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Il 24/09/2012 13:28, Juan Quintela ha scritto:
> >> Hi
> >> 
> >> Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering.
> >
> > URI parsing library for glusterfs: libxml2 vs. in-tree "fork" of the
> > same code.
> 
> The call is a bit late for Bharata but I think copying is the way to go.
> 
> Something I've been thinking about since this discussion started
> though.  Maybe we could standardize on using URIs as short-hand syntax
> for backends.
> 
> For example:
> 
> qemu -hda file:///foo.img
> 
> Or:
> 
> qemu -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=tap:///vnet0?script=/etc/qemu-ifup

This is roughly what the original URI code from libvirt is used for:

http://libvirt.org/remote.html#Remote_URI_reference

It works well because URIs are standardized, well understood, support
escaping, and are widely supported by client libraries/languages.

Rich.

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