"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjo...@redhat.com> writes: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 08:42:33PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> There's also the -drive file=json:... syntax. It's a bad fit for >> QemuOpts, because QemuOpts and JSON fight for the comma. I'd show you >> if I could get it to work. > > I think this refers to the json: syntax for qemu URIs?
The json: pseudo-protocol, i.e. "file names" starting with a "json:" protocol prefix. I think we mean the same. > Anyway we're using this in virt-v2v > (https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/v2v/input_libvirt_xen_ssh.ml) > > It's very useful, please try not to break it! We're not going to take the json: pseudo-protocol away. Perhaps we'll deprecate it at some point, but even then it'll stay for a sufficiently generous grace period.
