Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-options.hx: Document werror and rerror -drive options

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:18:17 +0200
Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> wrote:

> Am 07.07.2011 18:04, schrieb Luiz Capitulino:
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  qemu-options.hx |    5 +++++
> >  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
> > index e6d7adc..5f16a78 100644
> > --- a/qemu-options.hx
> > +++ b/qemu-options.hx
> > @@ -160,6 +160,11 @@ an untrusted format header.
> >  This option specifies the serial number to assign to the device.
> >  @item address@hidden
> >  Specify the controller's PCI address (if=virtio only).
> > address@hidden address@hidden,address@hidden
> > +Specify which @var{action} to take on write and read errors. Valid actions 
> > are:
> > +"ignore" (ignore the error and try to continue), "stop" (pause QEMU),
> > +"enospc" (pause QEMU, but only on no space conditions),
> 
> Maybe "pause QEMU only if the host disk is full; report the error to the
> guest otherwise"?

Works for me.

> > +"report" (report the error to the guest).
> >  @end table
> >  
> >  By default, writethrough caching is used for all block device.  This means 
> > that
> 
> We should mention that werror=enospc and rerror=report is the default.

I did that in my first private first, but I dropped when I realized that
we don't document defaults for the other options.