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| author | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2015-06-15 14:35:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> | 2015-06-23 20:23:39 +0300 |
| commit | ae08fd5a365e650d70acfe1d9027501707041b52 (patch) | |
| tree | 0dd905909c7b76165baef0218ba8b631628808d3 /qemu-options.hx | |
| parent | 6b932c0a5f951f1cfd3c459d8946074b9df8b829 (diff) | |
qemu-options: Improve -global documentation
Recent commit 3751d7c "vl: allow full-blown QemuOpts syntax for
-global" overloaded its existing argument syntax DRIVER.PROP=VALUE
with QemuOpts syntax. Unambigious as long as no DRIVER contains '='.
Its documentation claims that "the two syntaxes are equivalent."
Improve it to spell out how exactly the old syntax gets desugared into
the new one.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-options.hx')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index d1712f58af..328fbb4218 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -189,8 +189,9 @@ In particular, you can use this to set driver properties for devices which are created automatically by the machine model. To create a device which is not created automatically and set properties on it, use -@option{device}. -The two syntaxes are equivalent. The longer one works for drivers whose name -contains a dot. +-global @var{driver}.@var{prop}=@var{value} is shorthand for -global +driver=@var{driver},property=@var{prop},value=@var{value}. The +longhand syntax works even when @var{driver} contains a dot. ETEXI DEF("boot", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_boot, |