[PATCH] docs: Document qemu.conf locations
Michal Privoznik
mprivozn at redhat.com
Fri Mar 5 11:10:21 UTC 2021
On 3/5/21 10:45 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 20:55 +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> Surprisingly, we never documented the relationship between
>> connection URI and the location of qemu.conf. Users might wonder
>> what qemu.conf is loaded when they are connecting to the session
>> daemon or embed URI. And what to do if the file doesn't exist for
>> the URI they're using.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
>> ---
>> docs/drvqemu.html.in | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> docs/manpages/libvirtd.rst | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
>> docs/manpages/virtqemud.rst | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++
>> 3 files changed, 81 insertions(+)
>
> Excellent stuff, thanks for tackling this!
>
> Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>
>
> Now, since no good deed ever goes unpunished :) how would you feel
> about doing something similar for lxc.conf and libxl.conf? You can
> pretty much use the exact same text for both.
Absolutely.
>
> We also have qemu-lockd.conf and libxl-lockd.conf, but I have no idea
> what those are used for.
>
They are used for configuring the way we lock disks and so called leases
(for virtlockd). This is documented in docs/kbase/locking-lockd.rst
nevertheless, this table I'm inventing here should document those too.
Michal
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