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| -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" |