Re: [Qemu-devel] -net nic,model=? not working

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

Andreas Färber wrote:
> According to the HTML documentation, "-net nic,model=?" is supposed to  
> display a list of available devices for the target. `qemu -net  
> nic,model=?` however shows only the standard usage message. Anyone any  
> insights why? Is the documentation wrong? The usage message itself  
> does not explicitly mention '?' for that option.

The documentation is unclear.  You need to give other, valid options
for starting QEMU.  The simplest is to give the name of a disk image
file as an argument.

Then it outputs the message about NIC models and exits - after
starting then closing some devices.

-- Jamie