* tools/virsh.pod: Document top-level options.
---
And I'm posting a followup patch that documents virsh's options, like -c.
Can't believe we didn't have this in the man page!
tools/virsh.pod | 45 -
1 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod
index 209aa54..f65f6d4 100644
--- a/tools/virsh.pod
+++ b/tools/virsh.pod
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ KVM, LXC, OpenVZ, VirtualBox, OpenNebula, and VMware ESX.
The basic structure of most virsh usage is:
- virsh command domain-id [ARG]...
+ virsh [OPTION]... command domain-id [ARG]...
Where Icommand is one of the commands listed below, Idomain-id
is the numeric domain id, or the domain name (which will be internally
@@ -45,6 +45,49 @@ If no command is given in the command line, Bvirsh will
then start a minimal
interpreter waiting for your commands, and the Bquit command will then exit
the program.
+The Bvirsh program understands the following IOPTIONS.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B-h, B--help
+
+Ignore all other arguments, and behave as if the Bhelp command were
+given instead.
+
+=item B-v, B--version
+
+Ignore all other arguments, and behave as if the Bversion command were
+given instead.
+
+=item B-c, B--connect IURI
+
+Connect to the specified IURI, as if by the Bconnect command,
+instead of the default connection.
+
+=item B-d, B--debug ILEVEL
+
+Enable debug messages at integer ILEVEL and above. ILEVEL can
+range from 0 (default) to 5.
+
+=item B-l, B--log IFILE
+
+Output logging details to IFILE.
+
+=item B-q, B--quiet
+
+Avoid extra informational messages.
+
+=item B-r, B--readonly
+
+Make the initial connection read-only, as if by the I--readonly
+option of the Bconnect command.
+
+=item B-t, B--timing
+
+Output elapsed time information for each command.
+
+=back
+
=head1 NOTES
Most Bvirsh operations rely upon the libvirt library being able to
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1.7.2.3
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