On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 04:24:10PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > People seem to have a hard time understanding the --attach flag. > Rewrite the docs in the hope that people figure it out this time. ACK, didn't know libvirt/virt-viewer could do that (that is, assuming I understand the description correctly ;) Christophe > > 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
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