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| author | Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com> | 2012-03-21 13:46:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> | 2012-03-26 14:21:14 -0500 |
| commit | 3017b72cd0f4c7f7df9e93d3f7a4f600669187f7 (patch) | |
| tree | bb47644672840c99e4b20b71c63db152afa29aca | |
| parent | c9da228b49792354af6bb6735bc48bc1c156bc0d (diff) | |
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Man page: Add -global description
There's only TODO information in qemu man page for -global option. This is a basic description of this option with simple example. Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com> v4: - break long line v3: - add use case description - use prop instead of property v2: - Use better value in example Patch: -- Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index daefce3038..662f571527 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -288,13 +288,21 @@ TODO ETEXI DEF("global", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_global, - "-global driver.property=value\n" + "-global driver.prop=value\n" " set a global default for a driver property\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) STEXI -@item -global +@item -global @var{driver}.@var{prop}=@var{value} @findex -global -TODO +Set default value of @var{driver}'s property @var{prop} to @var{value}, e.g.: + +@example +qemu -global ide-drive.physical_block_size=4096 -drive file=file,if=ide,index=0,media=disk +@end example + +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}. ETEXI DEF("mtdblock", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_mtdblock, |