[Qemu-devel] Mistake in qemu man page?

[Qemu-devel] Mistake in qemu man page?

[Ryan Hayle]

The qemu man page includes an "hda" parameter to -soundhw, which I think 
must be a mistake...

        -soundhw card1[,card2,...] or -soundhw all
            Enable audio and selected sound hardware. Use ? to print all
            available sound hardware.

                    qemu -soundhw sb16,adlib hda
                    qemu -soundhw es1370 hda
                    qemu -soundhw ac97 hda
                    qemu -soundhw all hda
                    qemu -soundhw ?


At first I thought you had added emulating an Intel HDA sound adapter, 
but since it's not in the list of sound drivers, I thought I would post 
it here.

Ryan

[Qemu-devel][PATCH] Fix man page (Was: Mistake in qemu man page?)

[Stefan Weil]

Ryan Hayle schrieb:
> The qemu man page includes an "hda" parameter to -soundhw, which I
> think must be a mistake...
>
>        -soundhw card1[,card2,...] or -soundhw all
>            Enable audio and selected sound hardware. Use ? to print all
>            available sound hardware.
>
>                    qemu -soundhw sb16,adlib hda
>                    qemu -soundhw es1370 hda
>                    qemu -soundhw ac97 hda
>                    qemu -soundhw all hda
>                    qemu -soundhw ?
>
>
> At first I thought you had added emulating an Intel HDA sound adapter,
> but since it's not in the list of sound drivers, I thought I would
> post it here.
>
> Ryan
>
>
>

Here is a patch which changes the misleading part:




Fix documentation for command line option -soundhw

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>


Index: qemu-doc.texi
===================================================================
--- qemu-doc.texi       (Revision 5863)
+++ qemu-doc.texi       (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -371,10 +371,10 @@
 available sound hardware.

 @example
-qemu -soundhw sb16,adlib hda
-qemu -soundhw es1370 hda
-qemu -soundhw ac97 hda
-qemu -soundhw all hda
+qemu -soundhw sb16,adlib
+qemu -soundhw es1370
+qemu -soundhw ac97
+qemu -soundhw all
 qemu -soundhw ?
 @end example

Re: [Qemu-devel] Mistake in qemu man page?

[Andreas Färber]

Hi,

Am 03.12.2008 um 07:40 schrieb Ryan Hayle:

> The qemu man page includes an "hda" parameter to -soundhw, which I  
> think must be a mistake...
>
>       -soundhw card1[,card2,...] or -soundhw all
>           Enable audio and selected sound hardware. Use ? to print all
>           available sound hardware.
>
>                   qemu -soundhw sb16,adlib hda
>                   qemu -soundhw es1370 hda
>                   qemu -soundhw ac97 hda
>                   qemu -soundhw all hda
>                   qemu -soundhw ?
>
>
> At first I thought you had added emulating an Intel HDA sound  
> adapter, but since it's not in the list of sound drivers, I thought  
> I would post it here.

hda refers to the name of the disk image for IDE harddisk one, i.e.  
yourhda.img. Otherwise the qemu command line is incomplete and won't  
work (or prompt for an image). Note that it's apparently not necessary  
for ?, so it makes sense to keep it in some form.

Andreas