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@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man/virt-viewer.pod | 11 +++++++---- 1 file 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 -- 1.8.4.2 _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
