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From: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:03:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] qemu-options.hx: Improve -{read|write}config options
description
RH-Author: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
Message-id: <f892485319ed7e3176164b531ee3ac212f53ca81.1342619852.git.minovotn@redhat.com>
Patchwork-id: 40371
O-Subject: [RHEL-6.4 qemu-kvm PATCH v2] qemu-options.hx: Improve -{read|write}config options description
Bugzilla: 818134
RH-Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Bugzilla: 818134
Upstream relationship: ed24cfac07289d458ff284898bbd0389743a18b7
This is the patch to improve description for -{read|write}config
functions.
Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
---
qemu-options.hx | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
---
qemu-options.hx | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 1b20237..27e3d51 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -2155,10 +2155,21 @@ DEF("old-param", 0, QEMU_OPTION_old_param,
#endif
DEF("readconfig", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_readconfig,
"-readconfig <file>\n")
+STEXI
+@item -readconfig @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"
" read/write config file\n")
-
+STEXI
+@item -writeconfig @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("no-kvm", 0, QEMU_OPTION_no_kvm,
"-no-kvm disable KVM hardware virtualization\n")
DEF("no-kvm-irqchip", 0, QEMU_OPTION_no_kvm_irqchip,
--
1.7.11.4