[libvirt] [PATCH 1/5] docs: drvqemu: Clarify caveats of domxml-to-native

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Tue Jun 18 11:38:06 UTC 2019


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 at redhat.com>
---
 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
     <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 > demo.xml <<EOF
-- 
2.21.0




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