On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:51:39AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/19/2013 07:21 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>
> >
> > I was thinking more along the lines of:
> >
> > -drive if=none,file.driver=quorum,format=raw,\
> > file.children[0].file.filename=/nfs1/test.qcow2, \
>
> Note that this requires shell quoting to protect you from globbing
> changing the argv handed to qemu based on an (unusual) file name in the
> current directory. Not necessarily the end of the world (someone like
> libvirt that uses exec rather than a shell command line isn't bothered
> by it, and the command line is so long that most users will not be
> typing it directly), but worth thinking about whether we can come up
> with an alternate syntax that doesn't require shell quoting. (As is,
> your use of \-newline and whitespace is not quite right for how the
> actual command line would appear; but it does make discussion easier in
> the meantime)
Just don't use brackets - use a . for the array index separator too
eg
-drive if=none,file.driver=quorum,format=raw,\
file.children.0.file.filename=foo,\
file.children.1.file.filename=bar,\
file.children.2.file.filename=wiz,\
Daniel
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