docs/qdev-device-use: Don't suggest -drive and -net can do USB

Commit 480324ec8d "docs/qdev-device-use: Clean up the sentences
related to -usbdevice" deleted the information on syntax that no
longer works.  Unfortunately, the resulting text suggests you can
configure USB block devices with -drive, and USB network devices with
-net, which is misleading.

Instead of rephrasing the now misleading text, I'm putting the
information back, and just make clear it's about old versions of QEMU.

Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200806081147.3123652-4-armbru@redhat.com>
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Markus Armbruster 2020-08-06 10:11:47 +02:00
parent 382bd1cbbd
commit 923fbd4cbd
1 changed files with 32 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -125,7 +125,14 @@ The -device argument differs in detail for each type of drive:
* if=pflash, if=mtd, if=sd, if=xen are not yet available with -device
For USB storage devices, you can use something like:
For USB devices, the old way was actually different:
-usbdevice disk:format=FMT:FILENAME
"Was" because "disk:" is gone since v2.12.0.
The old way provided much less control than -drive's OPTS... The new
way fixes that:
-device usb-storage,drive=DRIVE-ID,removable=RMB
@ -178,6 +185,9 @@ The appropriate DEVNAME depends on the machine type. For type "pc":
-device usb-braille,chardev=braille -chardev braille,id=braille
* -usbdevice serial::chardev is gone since v2.12.0. It became
-device usb-serial,chardev=dev.
LEGACY-CHARDEV translates to -chardev HOST-OPTS... as follows:
* null becomes -chardev null
@ -231,6 +241,12 @@ The old way to define the guest part looks like this:
-net nic,netdev=NET-ID,macaddr=MACADDR,model=MODEL,name=ID,addr=STR,vectors=V
Except for USB it looked like this:
-usbdevice net:netdev=NET-ID,macaddr=MACADDR,name=ID
"Looked" because "net:" is gone since v2.12.0.
The new way is -device:
-device DEVNAME,netdev=NET-ID,mac=MACADDR,DEV-OPTS...
@ -328,6 +344,13 @@ The new way is -device DEVNAME,DEV-OPTS... Details depend on DRIVER:
* u2f -device u2f-{emulated,passthru}
* braille See "Character Devices"
Until v2.12.0, we additionally had
* host:... See "Host Device Assignment"
* disk:... See "Block Devices"
* serial:... See "Character Devices"
* net:... See "Network Devices"
=== Watchdog Devices ===
Host and guest part of watchdog devices have always been separate.
@ -343,7 +366,14 @@ and host USB devices. PCI devices can only be assigned with -device:
-device vfio-pci,host=ADDR,id=ID
To assign a host USB device use:
The old way to assign a USB host device
-usbdevice host:auto:BUS.ADDR:VID:PRID
was removed in v2.12.0. Any of BUS, ADDR, VID, PRID could be the
wildcard *.
The new way is
-device usb-host,hostbus=BUS,hostaddr=ADDR,vendorid=VID,productid=PRID