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| author | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2023-08-29 15:29:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> | 2023-09-08 13:08:52 +0300 |
| commit | bcd8e243083c878884e52d609deddbe6be17c730 (patch) | |
| tree | 86c8b79076d4a0516e53e1ecb842c7cdfc496f3b /qemu-options.hx | |
| parent | d864cf25924c3b39141574b9f78c2a923b7b8d87 (diff) | |
qemu-options.hx: Rephrase the descriptions of the -hd* and -cdrom options
The current description says that these options will create a device
on the IDE bus, which is only true on x86. So rephrase these sentences
a little bit to speak of "default bus" instead.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-options.hx')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 20 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index 463f520c57..56efe3d153 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -1209,10 +1209,10 @@ SRST ERST DEF("hda", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_hda, - "-hda/-hdb file use 'file' as IDE hard disk 0/1 image\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) + "-hda/-hdb file use 'file' as hard disk 0/1 image\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) DEF("hdb", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_hdb, "", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) DEF("hdc", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_hdc, - "-hdc/-hdd file use 'file' as IDE hard disk 2/3 image\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) + "-hdc/-hdd file use 'file' as hard disk 2/3 image\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) DEF("hdd", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_hdd, "", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) SRST ``-hda file`` @@ -1222,18 +1222,22 @@ SRST ``-hdc file`` \ ``-hdd file`` - Use file as hard disk 0, 1, 2 or 3 image (see the :ref:`disk images` - chapter in the System Emulation Users Guide). + Use file as hard disk 0, 1, 2 or 3 image on the default bus of the + emulated machine (this is for example the IDE bus on most x86 machines, + but it can also be SCSI, virtio or something else on other target + architectures). See also the :ref:`disk images` chapter in the System + Emulation Users Guide. ERST DEF("cdrom", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_cdrom, - "-cdrom file use 'file' as IDE cdrom image (cdrom is ide1 master)\n", + "-cdrom file use 'file' as CD-ROM image\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) SRST ``-cdrom file`` - Use file as CD-ROM image (you cannot use ``-hdc`` and ``-cdrom`` at - the same time). You can use the host CD-ROM by using ``/dev/cdrom`` - as filename. + Use file as CD-ROM image on the default bus of the emulated machine + (which is IDE1 master on x86, so you cannot use ``-hdc`` and ``-cdrom`` + at the same time there). On systems that support it, you can use the + host CD-ROM by using ``/dev/cdrom`` as filename. ERST DEF("blockdev", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_blockdev, |