Am 17.02.2016 um 11:10 hat Daniel P. Berrange geschrieben: > This series of patches expands the syntax of the qemu-img, > qemu-nbd and qemu-io commands to make them more flexible. > > v0: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-10/msg04365.html > v1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg04014.html > v2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg04354.html > v3: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg03381.html > v4: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg04984.html > v5: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2016-02/msg00022.html > v6: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg03141.html > > First all three gain a --object parameter, which allows > instantiation of user creatable object types. The immediate > use case is to allow for creation of the 'secret' object > type to pass passwords for curl, iscsi and rbd drivers. > For qemu-nbd this will also be needed to create TLS > certificates for encryption support. > > Then all three gain a '--image-opts' parameter which causes > the positional filenames to be interepreted as option strings > rather tha nplain filenames. This avoids the need to use the > JSON syntax, or to add custom CLI args for each block backend > option that exists. The immediate use case is to allow the > user to specify the ID of the 'secret' object they just created. > > Finally, there are a few small cleanup patches
Thanks, applied to the block branch. Kevin
