<varlistentry>
<term><option>--cpus=<replaceable>CPUS</replaceable></option></term>
- <listitem><para>Configures the number of CPUs to start the virtual machine with.
+ <listitem><para>The number of CPUs to start the virtual machine with.
Defaults to 1.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v255"/>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--ram=<replaceable>BYTES</replaceable></option></term>
- <listitem><para>Configures the amount of memory to start the virtual machine with.
+ <listitem><para>The amount of memory to start the virtual machine with.
Defaults to 2G.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v255"/>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--kvm=<replaceable>BOOL</replaceable></option></term>
- <listitem><para>Configures whether to use KVM. If the option is not specified KVM support will be
+ <listitem><para>If <option>--kvm=</option> is not specified KVM support will be
detected automatically. If true, KVM is always used, and if false, KVM is never used.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v255"/></listitem>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--vsock=<replaceable>BOOL</replaceable></option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Configure whether to use VSOCK networking.</para>
+ <listitem><para>If <option>--vsock=</option> is not specified VSOCK networking support will be
+ detected automatically. If true, VSOCK networking is always used, and if false, VSOCK networking is never used.</para>
- <para>If the option is not specified VSOCK support will be detected automatically. If yes is
- specified VSOCK is always used, and vice versa if no is set VSOCK are never used.</para>
- <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v255"/>
- </listitem>
+ <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v255"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--tpm=<replaceable>BOOL</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Configure whether to use VM with a virtual TPM or not.</para>
-
- <para>If the option is not specified vmspawn will detect the presence of <citerefentry project='debian'>
+ <para>If <option>--tpm=</option> is not specified vmspawn will detect the presence of <citerefentry project='debian'>
<refentrytitle>swtpm</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> and use it if available.
If yes is specified <citerefentry project='debian'><refentrytitle>swtpm</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- is always used, and vice versa if no is set <citerefentry project='debian'><refentrytitle>swtpm</refentrytitle>
+ is always used, and if no is set <citerefentry project='debian'><refentrytitle>swtpm</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> is never used.</para>
<para>Note: the virtual TPM used may change in future.</para>
<term><option>--private-users=<replaceable>UID_SHIFT[:UID_RANGE]</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem><para>Controls user namespacing under <option>--directory=</option>.
- If enabled, <command>virtiofsd</command> is instructed to map user and group ids (UIDs and GIDs).
+ If enabled,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>virtiofsd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ is instructed to map user and group ids (UIDs and GIDs).
This involves mapping the private UIDs/GIDs used in the virtual machine (starting with the virtual machine's
root user 0 and up) to a range of UIDs/GIDs on the host that are not used for other purposes (usually in the
range beyond the host's UID/GID 65536).</para>