Re: [Qemu-devel] drive_add: file names with spaces

[Eric Blake]

On 10/28/2017 06:44 AM, Programmingkid wrote:
> I'm trying to use an image file that has spaces in its file name (and 
> sometimes in the path) to be used as a USB flash drive. When I try adding the 
> image file using the drive_add command I see this error: drive_add: 
> extraneous characters at the end of the line
> 
> I have tried using single and double quotes around the file name but this 
> does not help. Is there a way to use files that have spaces in it's name with 
> drive_add?

Not in HMP, which lacks quoting.  (Unless you want to patch HMP to learn
quoting)

But using spaces in filenames works fine in QMP.

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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