[libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] virsh: Tweak attach-* documentation

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Mon Jun 18 13:03:01 UTC 2012


On 18.06.2012 13:43, Osier Yang wrote:
> On 2012年06月18日 19:28, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> as we are missing:
>> attach-disk: --type can accept 'lun' too, not just cdrom or floppy.
>> attach-disk: --target specify logical device name, not path
>> attach-interface: --target silently drops strings with vnet* prefix
> 
> Good catch for the attach-interface, we really need it.
> 
>> ---
>>   tools/virsh.pod |   12 +++++++-----
>>   1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod
>> index 910a187..4729127 100644
>> --- a/tools/virsh.pod
>> +++ b/tools/virsh.pod
>> @@ -1586,10 +1586,11 @@ needed if the device does not use managed mode.
>>   [I<--multifunction>]
>>
>>   Attach a new disk device to the domain.
>> -I<source>  and I<target>  are paths for the files and devices.
>> -I<driver>  can be I<file>, I<tap>  or I<phy>  for the Xen hypervisor
>> depending on
>> -the kind of access; or I<qemu>  for the QEMU emulator.
>> -I<type>  can indicate I<cdrom>  or I<floppy>  as alternative to the
>> disk default,
>> +I<source>  is path for the files and devices. I<target>  controls the
>> bus or
>> +device under which the disk is exposed to the guest OS. It indicates the
>> +"logical" device name.  I<driver>  can be I<file>, I<tap>  or I<phy> 
>> for the Xen
>> +hypervisor depending on the kind of access; or I<qemu>  for the QEMU
>> emulator.
>> +I<type>  can indicate I<lun>, I<cdrom>  or I<floppy>  as alternative
>> to the disk default,
>>   although this use only replaces the media within the existing
>> virtual cdrom or
>>   floppy device; consider using B<update-device>  for this usage instead.
>>   I<mode>  can specify the two specific mode I<readonly>  or
>> I<shareable>.
>> @@ -1614,7 +1615,8 @@ Attach a new network interface to the domain.
>>   I<type>  can be either I<network>  to indicate a physical network
>> device or
>>   I<bridge>  to indicate a bridge to a device.
>>   I<source>  indicates the source device.
>> -I<target>  allows to indicate the target device in the guest.
>> +I<target>  allows to indicate the target device in the guest. Names
>> starting
>> +with 'vnet' are considered as auto-generated an hence blanked out.
>>   I<mac>  allows to specify the MAC address of the network interface.
>>   I<script>  allows to specify a path to a script handling a bridge
>> instead of
>>   the default one.
> 
> ACK.
> 

Thanks, pushed.

Michal




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