Fixed by the following commit: https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/b44a6b09705e9e8a3005229b58de36d176020548
** Changed in: qemu Assignee: (unassigned) => Greg Kurz (gkurz) ** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1581976 Title: man qemu contains a bug in description of "-virtfs" command line argument Status in QEMU: Fix Committed Bug description: The description of command line argument https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/63d3145aadbecaa7e8be1e74b5d6b5cbbeb4e153/qemu-options.hx#L796-L799 looks like this: -virtfs fsdriver[,path=path],mount_tag=mount_tag[,security_model=security_model][,writeout=writeout][,readonly][,socket=socket|sock_fd=sock_fd] note, that there is no "id" attribute in the list of parameters. later on the man there the "id" attribute is documented, as it were present: id=id Specifies identifier for this device i think that it was copied from above section (about "-fsdev") without reviewing. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1581976/+subscriptions