Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/10] Make qemu-img/qemu-nbd/qemu-io CLI more flexible

From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/10] Make qemu-img/qemu-nbd/qemu-io CLI more flexible
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:10:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160217101058.GG30300@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160215155327.GH5244@noname.str.redhat.com>

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 04:53:27PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 15.02.2016 um 15:33 hat Daniel P. Berrange geschrieben:
> > This series of patches expands the syntax of the qemu-img,
> > qemu-nbd and qemu-io commands to make them more flexible.
> > 
> >   v0: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-10/msg04365.html
> >   v1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg04014.html
> >   v2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg04354.html
> >   v3: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg03381.html
> >   v4: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg04984.html
> >   v5: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2016-02/msg00022.html
> > 
> > First all three gain a --object parameter, which allows
> > instantiation of user creatable object types. The immediate
> > use case is to allow for creation of the 'secret' object
> > type to pass passwords for curl, iscsi and rbd drivers.
> > For qemu-nbd this will also be needed to create TLS
> > certificates for encryption support.
> > 
> > Then all three gain a '--image-opts' parameter which causes
> > the positional filenames to be interepreted as option strings
> > rather tha nplain filenames. This avoids the need to use the
> > JSON syntax, or to add custom CLI args for each block backend
> > option that exists. The immediate use case is to allow the
> > user to specify the ID of the 'secret' object they just created.
> > 
> > Finally, there are a few small cleanup patches
> 
> Thanks, applied to the block branch.

The NBD patches just merged, so I've rebased this series and sent you
a v7 to resolve the conflicts

Regards,
Daniel
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