Hidetoshi Seto <[email protected]> writes: > (2010/06/24 15:08), Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Note to qemu-devel: this issue is qemu-kvm only. >> >> "Hao, Xudong" <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> When assign one PCI device, qemu fail to parse the command line: >>> qemu-system_x86 -smp 2 -m 1024 -hda /path/to/img -pcidevice host=00:19.0 >>> Error: >>> qemu-system-x86_64: Parameter 'id' expects an identifier >>> Identifiers consist of letters, digits, '-', '.', '_', starting with a >>> letter. >>> pcidevice argument parse error; please check the help text for usage >>> Could not add assigned device host=00:19.0 >>> >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/597932 >>> >>> This issue caused by qemu-kvm commit >>> b560a9ab9be06afcbb78b3791ab836dad208a239. >> >> The bug is in add_assigned_device(): >> >> r = get_param_value(id, sizeof(id), "id", arg); >> if (!r) >> r = get_param_value(id, sizeof(id), "name", arg); >> if (!r) >> r = get_param_value(id, sizeof(id), "host", arg); >> >> We end up with invalid ID "00:19.0". > > ... Are there any strong reason why we cannot use ':' in the identifier?
Paul Brook (cc'ed) objected.
