Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames

[Blue Swirl]

On 7/15/09, Ram Pai <address@hidden> 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".

>  --- a/block/raw-posix.c
>  +++ b/block/raw-posix.c
>  +static int qemu_open(const char *filename, int flags, ...)

>  --- a/block/raw-win32.c
>  +++ b/block/raw-win32.c
>  +    fd = qemu_open(filename, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_BINARY,

I bet this won't compile on win32.

Instead of this (IMHO doomed) escape approach, maybe the filename
parameter could be specified as the next argument, for example:
-hda format=qcow2,blah,blah,filename_is_next_arg -hda "filename with
funky characters like ',' ':' & '!'"