From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BO8iL-0008IK-KN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 01:25:01 -0400 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BO8hk-00086z-Lq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 01:24:55 -0400 Received: from [211.5.2.73] (helo=nm01omta015.dion.ne.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BO8hk-00086a-66 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 01:24:24 -0400 Message-ID: <007801c438aa$b88a8ca0$010aa8c0@afina> From: "kazu" References: <20040513013633.97082.qmail@web51101.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Command line / invocation Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:25:35 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: spetreolle@users.sourceforge.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: >The help actually says we have to use "-boot [a|b|c|d]" to specify the disk to boot on. >This doesnt work, saying there is no such option. >Correct syntax seems to be "--boot", the same applies to --hda and --cdrom. There isn't getopt_long_only function in MinGW library. So double hyphen "--" is needed for long option which is more than two characters. I have written mini how to on Windows. Please see my site. Regards, kazu http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/