On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:42:56PM +0000, Chris Webb wrote: > Thanks for the swift reply! > > "Daniel P. Berrange" <berra...@redhat.com> writes: > > > Using -drive with an if=XXX which is anything other than 'none' is the > > deprecated / legacy syntax. The way libvirt does AHCI is to use the more > > verbose/modern syntax: > > > > -device ahci,id=ahci0 > > -drive > > if=none,file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/test/disk0.raw,format=raw,id=drive-sata0-0-0 > > -device ide-drive,bus=ahci0.0,drive=drive-sata0-0-0,id=sata0-0-0 > > Gosh, this is incredibly verbose for normal command line use. Whilst I can > see it's nice to have fine control over the detail (and bus/device ids) when > you need it, having to write out a command line of that length just to > attach a drive is a real pity. > > I could cook up a patch to do something sane with -drive if=ahci as a more > manageable command-line alternative, but is there any chance of this being > accepted if that you're describing the compact syntax as deprecated?
I'm fairly sure such a patch would still be accepted. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
