Your message dated Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:51:43 +0300
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and subject line Re: Bug#609231: kvm: improper handling of commandline arguments
has caused the Debian Bug report #609231,
regarding filename parser in qemu chokes on colons
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Package: qemu-kvm
Version: 1:0.12.5+dfsg-5
Severity: normal
Apparently kvm cannot handle CD images with odd names.
While I don't insist that such image names should work it points at some
bug in argument handling which is something to be avoided.
$ ln -s
clonezilla-live-1.2.6-58-amd64.iso\?r\=http\:%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fclonezilla%2Ffiles%2Fclonezilla_live_testing%2F1.2.6-58%2F
clonezilla-live-1.2.6-58-amd64.iso
$ kvm -cdrom clonezilla-live-1.2.6-58-amd64.iso
$ kvm -cdrom
clonezilla-live-1.2.6-58-amd64.iso\?r\=http\:%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fclonezilla%2Ffiles%2Fclonezilla_live_testing%2F1.2.6-58%2F
qemu: could not open disk image
clonezilla-live-1.2.6-58-amd64.iso?r=http:%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fclonezilla%2Ffiles%2Fclonezilla_live_testing%2F1.2.6-58%2F:
Invalid argument
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (910, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (200,
'experimental'), (111, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-rc7-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kvm depends on:
ii qemu-kvm 0.12.5+dfsg-5 Full virtualization on x86 hardwar
kvm recommends no packages.
kvm suggests no packages.
Versions of packages qemu-kvm depends on:
ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii bridge-utils 1.4-5 Utilities for configuring the Linu
ii iproute 20100519-3 networking and traffic control too
ii libaio1 0.3.107-7 Linux kernel AIO access library -
ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libbluetooth3 4.66-3 Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii libbrlapi0.5 4.2-7 braille display access via BRLTTY
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.21.0-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libgnutls26 2.8.6-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-4 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpci3 1:3.1.7-6 Linux PCI Utilities (shared librar
ii libpulse0 0.9.21-3+b1 PulseAudio client libraries
ii libsasl2-2 2.1.23.dfsg1-7 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.14-6.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libuuid1 2.17.2-5 Universally Unique ID library
ii libvdeplug2 2.2.3-3 Virtual Distributed Ethernet - Plu
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze4 interactive high-level object-orie
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
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Version: 1:7.2+dfsg-1
On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 19:20:43 +0300 Michael Tokarev <[email protected]> wrote:
The way to use "interesting" filenames do exist now. I don't know
when exactly it has been introduced, but it sure exists in bookworm
version.
qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file.filename=a:b:c,,d,,e,media=cdrom ..
When used with -cdrom (or -hda etc) shortcuts it doesn't work, one
have to use more advance -drive argument. Not as -drive file=filename
again, since colons (:) are interpreted as protocol delimiters, but
as file.filename=filename.
And there's another way to use such filenames:
qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom file:foo:winxp.iso
(where "foo:winxp.iso" is an actual file name).
Closing this bug report now.
2nd attempt :)
Thanks,
/mjt
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