Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> writes: > Am 17.01.2011 19:31, schrieb Markus Armbruster: >> For reasons lost in the mist of time, we silently ignore multiple >> definitions for the same drive: >> >> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -vnc :1 -S -monitor stdio -drive >> if=ide,index=1,file=tmp.qcow2 -drive if=ide,index=1,file=nonexistant >> QEMU 0.13.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information >> (qemu) info block >> ide0-hd1: type=hd removable=0 file=tmp.qcow2 backing_file=tmp.img ro=0 >> drv=qcow2 encrypted=0 >> >> With if=none, this can become quite confusing: >> >> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -vnc :1 -S -monitor stdio -drive >> if=none,index=1,file=tmp.qcow2,id=eins -drive >> if=none,index=1,file=nonexistant,id=zwei -device ide-drive,drive=eins >> -device ide-drive,drive=zwei >> qemu-system-x86_64: -device ide-drive,drive=zwei: Property >> 'ide-drive.drive' can't find value 'zwei' >> >> The second -device fails, because it refers to drive zwei, which got >> silently ignored. >> >> Make multiple drive definitions fail cleanly. >> >> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> > > Dropped this one (and patch 5, which depends on it) from the block > branch again, it breaks -cdrom and probably other drives which are > created by default.
--verbose? I was wondering what crap could depend on the crazy silent ignore...
