Version 1.13.15.

[libguestfs.git] / src / guestfs.pod

diff --git a/src/guestfs.pod b/src/guestfs.pod
index 06c3530..7580498 100644 (file)
--- a/src/guestfs.pod
+++ b/src/guestfs.pod
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ FUSE.
 
 Libguestfs is a library that can be linked with C and C++ management
 programs (or management programs written in OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby,
-Java, PHP, Haskell or C#).  You can also use it from shell scripts or the
-command line.
+Java, PHP, Erlang, Haskell or C#).  You can also use it from shell
+scripts or the command line.
 
 You don't need to be root to use libguestfs, although obviously you do
 need enough permissions to access the disk images.
@@ -719,6 +719,10 @@ used.
 The C# bindings are highly experimental.  Please read the warnings
 at the top of C<csharp/Libguestfs.cs>.
 
+=item B<Erlang>
+
+See L<guestfs-erlang(3)>.
+
 =item B<Haskell>
 
 This is the only language binding that is working but incomplete.
@@ -948,6 +952,29 @@ For example:
 Note that libguestfs also calls qemu with the -help and -version
 options in order to determine features.
 
+Wrappers can also be used to edit the options passed to qemu.  In the
+following example, the C<-machine ...> option (C<-machine> and the
+following argument) are removed from the command line and replaced
+with C<-machine pc,accel=tcg>.  The while loop iterates over the
+options until it finds the right one to remove, putting the remaining
+options into the C<args> array.
+
+ #!/bin/bash -
+ 
+ i=0
+ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+     case "$1" in
+     -machine)
+         shift 2;;
+     *)
+         args[i]="$1"
+         (( i++ ))
+         shift ;;
+     esac
+ done
+ 
+ exec qemu-kvm -machine pc,accel=tcg "${args[@]}"
+
 =head2 ATTACHING TO RUNNING DAEMONS
 
 I<Note (1):> This is B<highly experimental> and has a tendency to eat
@@ -2898,6 +2925,8 @@ will work with libguestfs.
 
 =item C<csharp>
 
+=item C<erlang>
+
 =item C<haskell>
 
 =item C<java>
@@ -3135,6 +3164,7 @@ enough.
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
 L<guestfs-examples(3)>,
+L<guestfs-erlang(3)>,
 L<guestfs-java(3)>,
 L<guestfs-ocaml(3)>,
 L<guestfs-perl(3)>,