On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 06:55:29PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Existing -drive defines both host and guest part. To make it work > with -device, we created if=none. But all this does is peel off guest > device selection. The other guest properties such as geometry, > removable vs. fixed media, and serial number are still in the wrong > place. > > Instead of overloading -drive even further, create a new, clean option > to define a host block device. -drive stays around unchanged for > command line convenience and backwards compatibility. > > This is just a first step. Future work includes:
One thing we really needs is a protocol option. The current colon syntax means we can't support filenames with colons in them which users keep requesting. By making the protocol a separate option we can sort this out.
