[Qemu-devel] Re: RFC v2: blockdev_add & friends, brief rationale, QMP docs

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 06/15/10 15:44, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 06/10/2010 08:45 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:


* Our config file format is in INI syntax. QemuOpts correspond to
INI sections. Sections can't be nested, so recursive QemuOpts
don't translate.

git (and probably others) use

[a "b"]
c = d

for

a.b.c=d

'b' is the id in qemu, i.e. -device driver=foo,id=bar,arg=value 
translates to

[device "bar"]
  driver = "foo"
  arg = "value"

in qemu.

Oh, and there is -set device.bar.arg2=value2 btw ...

cheers,
  Gerd