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| author | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2015-11-25 11:38:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2015-11-25 11:38:03 +0000 |
| commit | 1aae36df4b8ed884c6ef6995e70c67fad79b49df (patch) | |
| tree | 059f6801255605ff19fbc616c19a2e2a6abb1b5f /qemu-doc.texi | |
| parent | 4b6eda626fdb8bf90472c6868d502a2ac09abeeb (diff) | |
| parent | 1d649244b3695cb148dd2ae66999db0f6f9566b3 (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-ivshmem-2015-11-25' into staging
ivshmem patches for 2.5
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* remotes/armbru/tags/pull-ivshmem-2015-11-25:
ivshmem: Rename property memdev to x-memdev for 2.5
ivshmem: Mark questionable socket type test FIXME
tests/ivshmem-test: Supply missing initializer in get_device()
qemu-doc: Fix ivshmem usage example with shm=...
qemu-doc: Fix ivshmem example markup
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-doc.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-doc.texi | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index 460ab716ac..ffc3e50abb 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ zero-copy communication to the application level of the guests. The basic syntax is: @example -qemu-system-i386 -device ivshmem,size=<size in format accepted by -m>[,shm=<shm name>] +qemu-system-i386 -device ivshmem,size=@var{size},shm=@var{shm-name} @end example If desired, interrupts can be sent between guest VMs accessing the same shared @@ -1267,12 +1267,12 @@ memory server is: @example # First start the ivshmem server once and for all -ivshmem-server -p <pidfile> -S <path> -m <shm name> -l <shm size> -n <vectors n> +ivshmem-server -p @var{pidfile} -S @var{path} -m @var{shm-name} -l @var{shm-size} -n @var{vectors} # Then start your qemu instances with matching arguments -qemu-system-i386 -device ivshmem,size=<shm size>,vectors=<vectors n>,chardev=<id> +qemu-system-i386 -device ivshmem,size=@var{shm-size},vectors=@var{vectors},chardev=@var{id} [,msi=on][,ioeventfd=on][,role=peer|master] - -chardev socket,path=<path>,id=<id> + -chardev socket,path=@var{path},id=@var{id} @end example When using the server, the guest will be assigned a VM ID (>=0) that allows guests @@ -1300,7 +1300,7 @@ a memory backend that has hugepage support: @example qemu-system-i386 -object memory-backend-file,size=1G,mem-path=/mnt/hugepages/my-shmem-file,id=mb1 - -device ivshmem,memdev=mb1 + -device ivshmem,x-memdev=mb1 @end example ivshmem-server also supports hugepages mount points with the |