Avi Kivity wrote:
Fabrice Bellard wrote:
I prefer:
drive.file=foo.img
drive.if=scsi
That doesn't support multiple drives very well.
Right, I realized it afterwards !
I suggested it because my original plan for the configuration file was
based on this syntax with a strong inspiration from the OpenFirmware
device tree. The idea was that the object name ("drive" here) had no
hardcoded meaning, except for some predefined object names in order to
keep a kind of backward compatibility with the current QEMU options.
In order to create a new drive for example, you just have to do:
mydrive.class=drive
mydrive.if=scsi
mydrive.file=abc.img
the "class" field is used to select the device model. Then all the
other parameters are used to initialize the device model. That way it
is possible to keep the compatibility with the existing options and
add a provision to instanciate arbitrary new device models, such as: