This bug is not fixed. There was an attempt to fix it, but it were reverted. There was another attempt (by me) but it was incomplete (I'll resend in shortly).
For some reason I can't change status of this bug back to something more appropriate. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393562 Title: QEMU does not support files with colons in the filename Status in QEMU: Fix Released Bug description: It is impossible to feed filenames with the character colon because qemu interprets such names as a protocol. For example a filename scsi:0, is interpreted as a protocol "scsi". Unfortunately filenames like /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:0b:00.0-sas-phy0:1-0x5000c5000c14b41d:0-lun0-part3 have colon in their names.
