id = 1728
title = "blockdev parameter does not accept dots in pool name in json config"
state = "closed"
created_at = "2023-06-24T13:27:43.220Z"
closed_at = "2023-07-20T07:59:27.219Z"
labels = []
url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1728"
host-os = "Ubuntu 20.04"
host-arch = "x86_64"
qemu-version = "6.2.0"
guest-os = "Ubuntu 22.04"
guest-arch = "x86_64"
description = """I'm trying to provision a VM using qemu 6.2.0 and pass the remote disk parameters like libvirt. When I start the VM, I get an error saying 


```
qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev {driver:rbd,pool:cloud.disk.hiops,image:csi-vol-8577fffd-0f48-3344-b333-02000038163a,server:[{host:1.2.3.4,port:6789},{host:1.2.3.5,port:6789},{host:1.2.3.6,port:6789}],user:compute-staging,auth-client-required:[cephx,none],key-secret:ceph-secret,node-name:pv-MD7PBV3SRD21L08115JUJ94HMG,cache:{direct:false,no-flush:false},auto-read-only:true,discard:unmap}: JSON parse error, stray '.'
```


I changed the ip address and some fields.


My question is should we avoid dots in pool name? I tried to look at the source code of json parser but in its doc, it did not mention a sequence of characters for escaping dots."""
reproduce = """1. Provision a VM with the provided config"""
additional = """bl"""