On Feb 16, 2015, at 6:41 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 17 February 2015 at 01:22, Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> wrote: >> You could still apply some translation table to the menu entry string, >> like: >> >> floppy0 => Floppy drive A >> floppy1 => Floppy drive B >> ide0-cd0 => IDE CD-ROM (Primary Master) >> ide0-cd1 => IDE CD-ROM (Primary Slave) >> ide1-cd0 => IDE CD-ROM (Secondary Master) >> ide1-cd1 => IDE CD-ROM (Secondary Slave) > > It would be nice if every UI frontend didn't have to duplicate > this code...
I told Kevin that the type field in the BlockInfo structure (qapi-types.h) looks unused. That could be used to store the above data.
