Re: [Qemu-devel] Command line / invocation

[Jamie Burns]

Most programs tend to use a single hyphen for single letter switches, ie:

    cp -r foo bar

And double hyphens for full switches, ie:

    cp --recursive foo bar

And as in the case above, single letter switches are usually provided in
addition to full switches as shortcuts. Both are valid.

Maybe as QEMU gains more features, thought could be given to prioritise
which features actually warrant a single letter shortcut switch.

The boot option looks like an ideal candidate and it would be great if these
two lines worked identically:

    qemu -b c

    qemu --boot c

Jamie.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sylvain Petreolle" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 2:36 AM
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Command line / invocation


> Hi all,
>
> I noticed there is a problem in qemu invocation.
>
> 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.
>
> Do you want to change options to use a single hyphen or modify the help in
the future ?
>
> $ qemu -boot c -hda test
> c: No such file or directory
> C:\msys\1.0\home\syl\qemu_win32\qemu.exe: unknown option -- b
> C:\msys\1.0\home\syl\qemu_win32\qemu.exe: unknown option -- o
> C:\msys\1.0\home\syl\qemu_win32\qemu.exe: unknown option -- o
> C:\msys\1.0\home\syl\qemu_win32\qemu.exe: unknown option -- t
> qemu: could not open hard disk image 'c
>
>
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