block: Allow "driver" option on the top level
This is traditionally -drive format=..., which is now translated into
the new driver option. This gives us a more consistent way to select the
driver of BlockDriverStates that can be used in QMP context, too.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index 6cd39fa..c77cfd1 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -970,6 +970,7 @@
char tmp_filename[PATH_MAX + 1];
BlockDriverState *file = NULL;
QDict *file_options = NULL;
+ const char *drvname;
/* NULL means an empty set of options */
if (options == NULL) {
@@ -1059,6 +1060,12 @@
}
/* Find the right image format driver */
+ drvname = qdict_get_try_str(options, "driver");
+ if (drvname) {
+ drv = bdrv_find_whitelisted_format(drvname, !(flags & BDRV_O_RDWR));
+ qdict_del(options, "driver");
+ }
+
if (!drv) {
ret = find_image_format(file, filename, &drv);
}
