Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] doc: switch to modern syntx for VNC TLS setup

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 03:28:06PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 28/06/2018 15:22, Eric Blake wrote:
> >>>
> >>> -qemu-system-i386 [...OPTIONS...] -vnc :1,tls,x509=/etc/pki/qemu
> >>> -monitor stdio
> >>> +qemu-system-i386 [...OPTIONS...] \
> >>> +  -object
> >>> tls-creds-x509,id=tls0,dir=/etc/pki/qemu,endpoint=server,verify-peer=no
> >>> \
> > 
> > I'd use --object here (especially since -object cannot be used on
> > qemu-nbd, but --object tls-creds-x509 can).
> 
> But that would be inconsistent with -vnc.

Yeah, in this case I'd rather stick with single dash, for consistency,
since this example is not applicable to non-system emulators anyway.

> I honestly don't understand the crusade against single-dashed options.

It does cause confusion in some documentation contexts with -object,
since qemu-nbd/qemu-img/qemu-io all mandated --object instead.

Regards,
Daniel
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