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Document qemu wrappers.
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@@ -632,6 +632,30 @@ sort of connection control, when the daemon launches it sends an
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initial word (C<GUESTFS_LAUNCH_FLAG>) which indicates that the guest
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and daemon is alive. This is what C<guestfs_wait_ready> waits for.
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=head1 QEMU WRAPPERS
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If you want to compile your own qemu, run qemu from a non-standard
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location, or pass extra arguments to qemu, then you can write a
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shell-script wrapper around qemu.
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There is one important rule to remember: you I<must C<exec qemu>> as
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the last command in the shell script (so that qemu replaces the shell
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and becomes the direct child of the libguestfs-using program). If you
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don't do this, then the qemu process won't be cleaned up correctly.
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Here is an example of a wrapper, where I have built my own copy of
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qemu from source:
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#!/bin/sh -
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qemudir=/home/rjones/d/qemu
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exec $qemudir/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -L $qemudir/pc-bios "$@"
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Save this script as C</tmp/qemu.wrapper> (or wherever), C<chmod +x>,
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and then use it by setting the LIBGUESTFS_QEMU environment variable.
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For example:
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LIBGUESTFS_QEMU=/tmp/qemu.wrapper guestfish
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=head1 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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=over 4
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@@ -652,6 +676,8 @@ Set the default qemu binary that libguestfs uses. If not set, then
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the qemu which was found at compile time by the configure script is
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used.
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See also L<QEMU WRAPPERS> above.
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=back
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=head1 SEE ALSO
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