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docs: drvqemu: Clarify caveats of domxml-to-native
authorPeter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:25:20 +0000 (13:25 +0200)
committerPeter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Thu, 20 Jun 2019 10:15:05 +0000 (12:15 +0200)
Explicitly state that the conversion nowadays produces results which
aren't really usable manually as it requires all the stuff which is
usually prepared by libvirtd.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
docs/drvqemu.html.in

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@@ -478,7 +478,10 @@ $ virsh domxml-from-native qemu-argv demo.args
     <p>
       The <code>virsh domxml-to-native</code> provides a way to convert a
       guest description using libvirt Domain XML, into a set of QEMU args
-      that can be run manually.
+      that can be run manually. Note that currently the command line formatted
+      by libvirt is no longer suited for manually running qemu as the
+      configuration expects various resources and open file descriptors passed
+      to the process which are usually prepared by libvirtd.
     </p>
 
     <pre>$ cat &gt; demo.xml &lt;&lt;EOF