According to the man page, the memspec parameter should have the '--memspec' option mandatory and this is as close as we can get to that. What this change does is explained below. man virsh: snapshot-create-as ... [[--live] [--memspec memspec]] virsh help snapshot-create-as before this patch: SYNOPSIS snapshot-create-as ... [<memspec>] ... ... OPTIONS [--memspec] <string> ... virsh help snapshot-create-as after this patch: SYNOPSIS snapshot-create-as ... [--memspec <string>] ... ... OPTIONS --memspec <string> ... Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/virsh-snapshot.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/virsh-snapshot.c b/tools/virsh-snapshot.c index d994fd9..c2db99b 100644 --- a/tools/virsh-snapshot.c +++ b/tools/virsh-snapshot.c @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static const vshCmdOptDef opts_snapshot_create_as[] = { .help = N_("take a live snapshot") }, {.name = "memspec", - .type = VSH_OT_DATA, + .type = VSH_OT_STRING, .flags = VSH_OFLAG_REQ_OPT, .help = N_("memory attributes: [file=]name[,snapshot=type]") }, -- 1.8.1.5 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list