From: Peter Krempa Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:25:20 +0000 (+0200) Subject: docs: drvqemu: Clarify caveats of domxml-to-native X-Git-Tag: v5.5.0-rc1~118 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6679dc963618c41dc8ec24ea9eca08da2e190874;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git docs: drvqemu: Clarify caveats of domxml-to-native 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 Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko --- diff --git a/docs/drvqemu.html.in b/docs/drvqemu.html.in index 0218b5a7a9..65712cfb47 100644 --- a/docs/drvqemu.html.in +++ b/docs/drvqemu.html.in @@ -478,7 +478,10 @@ $ virsh domxml-from-native qemu-argv demo.args

The virsh domxml-to-native 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. 

$ cat > demo.xml <<EOF