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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] -net nic,model=? not working
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:00:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080813000049.GB29029@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B1BE0496-68FB-4F8C-8C85-FE03CD12CE6A@web.de>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-13  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-12 23:25 [Qemu-devel] -net nic,model=? not working Andreas Färber
2008-08-13  0:00 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2008-08-13  0:19   ` nuitari-qemu
2008-08-13 12:31     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-08-13 14:54       ` nuitari-qemu
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-12 23:24 Andreas Färber

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