On 2011-05-11 18:08, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Carl Karsten <c...@personnelware.com> wrote: >> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Carl Karsten <c...@personnelware.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> I would expect the syntax to look like this: >>>>> >>>>> qemu -hda 1.qcow2 -net nick -net >>>>> user,hostname=qemu,search=example.com,sales.example.com >>>> >>>> Comma escaping is needed but it seems like a reasonable feature to me. >>> >>> Comma escaping is ugly: >>> -net user,hostname=qemu,search=example.com,,sales.example.com >>> >>> Could we have multiple search options instead? Like this: >>> -net user,hostname=qemu,search=example.com,search=sales.example.com >>> >> >> How about: >> >> -net user,hostname=qemu,search="example.com,sales.example.com" > > That does not work the way you'd expect: > $ echo asdf=asdf,ok="this,is,a,test" > asdf=asdf,ok=this,is,a,test > > Also, let's not get into the business of matching quotes and passing > them escaped on the shell. That's just as ugly as escaping commas and > more work. > > I think the two options are using QEMU's typical comma escaping ',,' > or specifying the option multiple times. I'd go with comma escaping > for consistency. I'm not aware of any other option in QEMU that is > specified multiple times.
-net user,hostfwd=...,hostfwd=... Let's got for multiple specification, ',,' is just ugly IMHO. Jan
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