The example suggests you can omit "shm". This isn't true; you must specify exactly one of "shm", "chardev", "memdev". Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1448384789-14830-3-git-send-email-arm...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> --- qemu-doc.texi | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index c9b7069..68ca075 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ zero-copy communication to the application level of the guests. The basic syntax is: @example -qemu-system-i386 -device ivshmem,size=@var{size}[,shm=@var{shm-name}] +qemu-system-i386 -device ivshmem,size=@var{size},shm=@var{shm-name} @end example If desired, interrupts can be sent between guest VMs accessing the same shared -- 2.4.3