On Thu Apr 07, 2011 at 14:52:34 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Ralf Ramsauer > <ralf.ramsa...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On 07.04.2011, at 14:48, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > > >> Out of curiousity, why are you trying to kill spaces at all? > >> > >> Why not just use a correct command-line to invoke QEMU? > >> > >> Stefan > > > > Well it took me 2 days to find out why -initrd "module1, module2" didn't > > work. If there's a space after the comma you'll always > > get the error message "Failed to get image size". > > How about improving the error message?
I'll send a patch shortly fixing the message. > > And if you want to pass a comma in a multiboot argument you've no way to do > > this. > > So -initrd"module1 settings=use_foo,use_bar" won't work! > > >From what I can tell your patch does not change this. It should be possible to put commas on the mb command line. Do we want to escape commas? Adam -- Adam a...@os.inf.tu-dresden.de Lackorzynski http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~adam/