Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for September 25th

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 25/09/2012 17:33, Bharata B Rao ha scritto:
>>> qemu -device \
>>> > >       isa-serial,index=0,chr=tcp://localhost:1025/?server=on&wait=off
>> > 
>> > Your examples kind of prove this: They aren't much shorter than what
>> > exists today, but they contain ? and &, which are nasty characters on
>> > the command line.
> Right. '&' can't even be specified directly on command line since that will
> result in qemu command being treated as a background job with anything after
> '&' being discarded. I realized that '&' needs to be escaped as %26.

No, %26 is escaped at the URL level, i.e. it doesn't start a new
argumnt.  If you need to pass '&' in the shell, simply use quoting or
write it \&.

Paolo