[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] rev4: support colon in filenames

[Anthony Liguori]

Ram Pai wrote:
> Problem: It is impossible to feed filenames with the character colon because
> qemu interprets such names as a protocol. For example filename scsi:0, is
> interpreted as a protocol by name "scsi".
>
> This patch allows user to espace colon characters. For example the above
> filename can now be expressed either as 'scsi\:0' or as file:scsi:0
>
> anything following the "file:" tag is interpreted verbatin. However if "file:"
> tag is omitted then any colon characters in the string must be escaped using
> backslash.
>
> Here are couple of examples:
>   

This needs rebasing and I'd like to see a few folks ack it first too.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori