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| author | Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> | 2014-01-29 16:22:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> | 2014-02-24 10:19:58 +0000 |
| commit | 7d7d3243870904c1ca9154b61063c35b7c79b640 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e8fc7bcfc1cdf7056931fc09aeb881bda809314 /man | |
| parent | 74b532f1ecf5affecc13e322723881ba42d2dd29 (diff) | |
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Improve docs for --attach flag in virt-viewer
People seem to have a hard time understanding the --attach flag.
Rewrite the docs in the hope that people figure it out this time.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/virt-viewer.pod | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/virt-viewer.pod b/man/virt-viewer.pod index 963d7bc..2d4ab2c 100644 --- a/man/virt-viewer.pod +++ b/man/virt-viewer.pod @@ -59,10 +59,13 @@ used SSH. =item -a, --attach -Use libvirt to directly attach to a local display, instead of making a -TCP/UNIX socket connection. This avoids the need to authentication with -the remote display, if authentication with libvirt is already allowed. -This option does not work with remote displays. +Instead of making a direct TCP/UNIX socket connection to the remote display, +ask libvirt to provide a pre-connected socket for the display. This avoids +the need to authenticate with the remote display server directly. This option +will only work when connecting to a guest that is running on the same host +as the virt-viewer program. If attaching to the guest via libvirt fails, +virt-viewer will automatically fallback to trying a regular direct TCP/UNIX +socket connection. =item -f, --full-screen |