Eh. Well. I'm a bit surprised that you won't allow forward slashes if you try to parse a path. It's actually a quite common character in the Linux world. Even other Unixes use it for separating components of a path. And since people use it so much, it should be as easy as possible to actually give a path to qemu. The excuse that it "is used to create special expressions" (which, btw?!) doesn't hold. I'm pretty confident that people use the '/' character to separate components of a path rather than doing "special expressions". Especially when a path the a file is expected! So if there are still "special expressions" needed in a path, it'd be better to select a different character.
Even if you don't agree on that, I really believe the user deserves some explanation along with the error message that is printed as I've pointed out in comment #0. ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- qemus pmemsave doesn't accept "/" in filename https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/543478 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to qemu-kvm in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs