> On Oct 29, 2017, at 6:21 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > * Eric Blake (ebl...@redhat.com) wrote: >> 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) > > I think it's already got that code at least in some places. > monitor_parse_arguments calls get_str, and get_str understands " wrapped > arguments. > > drive_add 1 "file=foo bar" > > gives me: > Could not open 'foo bar': No such file or directory > > so I think that's doing the right thing. > > Dave > >> But using spaces in filenames works fine in QMP. >> >> -- >> Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer >> Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 >> Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org >> > > > -- > Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
Thank you so much for this info. It solved my problem :)
