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| author | Yihuan Pan <xun794@gmail.com> | 2023-12-13 22:17:07 +0800 |
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| committer | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2023-12-20 10:29:23 +0100 |
| commit | fd49b2153ed2448de6798fba31430a8dccea8ed8 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e28fd6a4b5d4dc3351b3125babc7a6dd98963c0 /docs | |
| parent | 81c2c9dd5dc2a39b95317ca3a9baff0184f9f097 (diff) | |
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qemu-options: Clarify handling of commas in options parameters
Provide explicit guidance on dealing with option parameters as arbitrary
strings containing commas, such as in "file=my,file" and "string=a,b". The
updated documentation emphasizes the need to double commas when they
appear within such parameters.
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1839
Signed-off-by: Yihuan Pan <xun794@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20231213141706.629833-2-xun794@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/system/invocation.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/system/qemu-manpage.rst | 5 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/system/invocation.rst b/docs/system/invocation.rst index 4ba38fc..14b7db1 100644 --- a/docs/system/invocation.rst +++ b/docs/system/invocation.rst @@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ Invocation disk_image is a raw hard disk image for IDE hard disk 0. Some targets do not need a disk image. +When dealing with options parameters as arbitrary strings containing +commas, such as in "file=my,file" and "string=a,b", it's necessary to +double the commas. For instance,"-fw_cfg name=z,string=a,,b" will be +parsed as "-fw_cfg name=z,string=a,b". + .. hxtool-doc:: qemu-options.hx Device URL Syntax diff --git a/docs/system/qemu-manpage.rst b/docs/system/qemu-manpage.rst index c47a412..3ade4ee 100644 --- a/docs/system/qemu-manpage.rst +++ b/docs/system/qemu-manpage.rst @@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ Options disk_image is a raw hard disk image for IDE hard disk 0. Some targets do not need a disk image. +When dealing with options parameters as arbitrary strings containing +commas, such as in "file=my,file" and "string=a,b", it's necessary to +double the commas. For instance,"-fw_cfg name=z,string=a,,b" will be +parsed as "-fw_cfg name=z,string=a,b". + .. hxtool-doc:: qemu-options.hx .. include:: keys.rst.inc |