On Oct 27, 2011, at 5:33 AM, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
This patch adds a short description of how to specify a NBD device
to QEMU.
Syntax for both TCP and Unix Domain Sockets are provided as well
as examples.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlb...@gmail.com>
---
qemu-options.hx | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 7c434f8..564ae3f 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -1757,6 +1757,27 @@ qemu --drive file=iscsi://192.0.2.1/iqn.
2001-04.com.example/1
iSCSI support is an optional feature of QEMU and only available when
compiled and linked against libiscsi.
+@item NBD
+QEMU supports NBD (Network Block Devices) both using TCP protocol
as well
+as Unix Domain Sockets.
+
+Syntax for specifying a NDB device using TCP
+``nbd:<server-ip>:<port>[:exportname=<export>]''
+
+Syntax for specifying a NDB device using Unix Domain Sockets
+``nbd:unix:<domain-socket>[:exportname=<export>]''
On the two "Syntax for..." lines: s/NDB/NBD/
-- ES
