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disk_image is a raw hard disk image for IDE hard disk 0. Some targets do
not need a disk image.
+When dealing with options parameters as arbitrary strings containing
+commas, such as in "file=my,file" and "string=a,b", it's necessary to
+double the commas. For instance,"-fw_cfg name=z,string=a,,b" will be
+parsed as "-fw_cfg name=z,string=a,b".
+
.. hxtool-doc:: qemu-options.hx
.. include:: keys.rst.inc