From 6679dc963618c41dc8ec24ea9eca08da2e190874 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Krempa Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:25:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: drvqemu: Clarify caveats of domxml-to-native MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 --- docs/drvqemu.html.in | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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
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