[PATCH 1/1] Clarify the purpose of domxml-from-native

[Dave Allan <dallan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Someone mentioned to me that they interpreted this section of the KVM
driver page as suggesting that new guests should be created by
creating a qemu commandline and converting it to XML with
domxml-from-native.  I don't think that's the intent of
domxml-from-native, so I added that clarification.
---
 docs/drvqemu.html.in |   12 +++++++++---
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/drvqemu.html.in b/docs/drvqemu.html.in
index fa5496c..09c4f95 100644
--- a/docs/drvqemu.html.in
+++ b/docs/drvqemu.html.in
@@ -432,9 +432,15 @@ mount -t cgroup none /dev/cgroup -o devices
     <h3><a name="xmlimport">Converting from QEMU args to domain XML</a></h3>

     <p>
-      The <code>virsh domxml-from-native</code> provides a way to convert an
-      existing set of QEMU args into a guest description using libvirt Domain XML
-      that can then be used by libvirt.
+      The <code>virsh domxml-from-native</code> provides a way to
+      convert an existing set of QEMU args into a guest description
+      using libvirt Domain XML that can then be used by libvirt.
+      Please note that this command is intended to be used to convert
+      existing qemu guests previously started from the command line to
+      be managed through libvirt.  It should not be used a method of
+      creating new guests from scratch.  New guests should be created
+      using an application calling the libvirt APIs or by manually
+      crafting XML to pass to virsh.
     </p>

     <pre>$ cat &gt; demo.args &lt;&lt;EOF
-- 
1.7.7.6

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