Attachment 586398 Details for Bug 818134 – Proposed patch to add -readconfig/-writeconfig command line options

[patch] Proposed patch to add -readconfig/-writeconfig command line options

0001-man-page-Add-read-write-config-options-description.patch (text/plain), 2.35 KB, created by Michal Novotny on 2012-05-23 16:16:31 UTC

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>From 94a370914a945e15ca5cc84b7ec4158a66df09f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>Message-Id: <94a370914a945e15ca5cc84b7ec4158a66df09f2.1337789680.git.minovotn@redhat.com>
>From: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
>Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 14:38:58 +0200
>Subject: [RHEL-6.4 qemu-kvm PATCH] man-page: Add -{read|write}config options description
>
>Brew: https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/taskinfo?taskID=4442610
>Bugzilla: 818134
>
>This is the patch to include -readconfig and -writeconfig command line
>options to the QEMU man page. Those commands are useful when using
>many devices and/or command line arguments in general to save space
>in the QEMU command line.
>
>Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
>---
> qemu-options.hx |   24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
> 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
>index e67f163..ce095d6 100644
>--- a/qemu-options.hx
>+++ b/qemu-options.hx
>@@ -2099,6 +2099,25 @@ Normally QEMU loads a configuration file from @var{sysconfdir}/qemu.conf and
> option will prevent QEMU from loading these configuration files at startup.
> ETEXI
> 
>+DEF("readconfig", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_readconfig,
>+    "-readconfig file\n")
>+STEXI
>+@item -readconfig @var{file}
>+The @code{-readconfig} option accepts a file name argument that contains command
>+line options. This approach is useful when you want to spawn qemu process with
>+many command line options but you don't want to exceed the command line character
>+limit.
>+ETEXI
>+DEF("writeconfig", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_writeconfig,
>+    "-writeconfig file\n"
>+    "                read/write config file\n")
>+STEXI
>+@item -writeconfig @var{file}
>+The @code{-writeconfig} option can accept both filename to save to command line
>+options to or a dash (@code{-}) character to print the output to stdout. This can
>+be later used as input file for @code{-readconfig} option.
>+ETEXI
>+
> STEXI
> @end table
> ETEXI
>@@ -2116,11 +2135,6 @@ DEF("semihosting", 0, QEMU_OPTION_semihosting,
> DEF("old-param", 0, QEMU_OPTION_old_param,
>     "-old-param      old param mode\n")
> #endif
>-DEF("readconfig", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_readconfig,
>-    "-readconfig <file>\n")
>-DEF("writeconfig", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_writeconfig,
>-    "-writeconfig <file>\n"
>-    "                read/write config file\n")
> 
> DEF("no-kvm", 0, QEMU_OPTION_no_kvm,
>     "-no-kvm         disable KVM hardware virtualization\n")
>-- 
>1.7.7.6
>

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