On Mittwoch, 2. September 2020 18:54:22 CEST Greg Kurz wrote: > > Well, I can do that of course. But somehow I fear users get lost by just > > pointing them to "man 1 qemu" in the log message. It already starts that > > e.g. on Debian there is no "man qemu", it is "man qemu-system" there > > instead. Next issue is that qemu man page is currently not structured in > > a way that would> > > allow me to directly point them to the relevant man heading like: > > man --pager='less -p ^9P-msize' qemu > > > > So they would need to scroll their way through the entire man page by > > themselfes and find confusing sections like "-fsdev -device virtio-9p-pci" > > vs. "-virtfs", etc. I can imagine some people will struggle with that. > > > > With a link like "https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup#msize"; the > > thing would be crystal clear within seconds. > > > > Just my opinion. Greg? > > Fine by me for this patch. > > For a longer term, maybe we should find a way to advertise some hint > for msize to the guest... Not sure how to do that though.
On the long term that would be possible, however only with a protocol change allowing server to send minimum, maximum and recommended msize to client. As you know, right now server only has a say in maximum msize. Best regards, Christian Schoenebeck
