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| author | Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com> | 2012-07-16 14:28:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> | 2012-07-17 15:40:15 -0500 |
| commit | ed24cfac07289d458ff284898bbd0389743a18b7 (patch) | |
| tree | d0ab097dacec775875605c1342ddd91cef1b2090 | |
| parent | 3b25597bcf7fa8c92ba2107fbdb260ce0eccd64b (diff) | |
qemu-options.hx: Improve -{read|write}config options description
This is the patch to improve description for -{read|write}config
functions.
Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index ecf7ca12d7..7130bc328b 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -2697,7 +2697,9 @@ DEF("readconfig", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_readconfig, STEXI @item -readconfig @var{file} @findex -readconfig -Read device configuration from @var{file}. +Read device configuration from @var{file}. This approach is useful when you want to spawn +QEMU process with many command line options but you don't want to exceed the command line +character limit. ETEXI DEF("writeconfig", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_writeconfig, "-writeconfig <file>\n" @@ -2705,7 +2707,9 @@ DEF("writeconfig", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_writeconfig, STEXI @item -writeconfig @var{file} @findex -writeconfig -Write device configuration to @var{file}. +Write device configuration to @var{file}. The @var{file} can be either filename to save +command line and device configuration into file or dash @code{-}) character to print the +output to stdout. This can be later used as input file for @code{-readconfig} option. ETEXI DEF("nodefconfig", 0, QEMU_OPTION_nodefconfig, "-nodefconfig\n" |