Invocation

.. _sec_005finvocation:

Invocation

.. parsed-literal::

|qemu_system| [options] [disk_image]

disk_image is a raw hard disk image for IDE hard disk 0. Some targets do not need a disk image.

When dealing with options parameters as arbitrary strings containing commas, such as in "file=my,file" and "string=a,b", it's necessary to double the commas. For instance,"-fw_cfg name=z,string=a,,b" will be parsed as "-fw_cfg name=z,string=a,b".

.. hxtool-doc:: qemu-options.hx

Device URL Syntax

.. include:: device-url-syntax.rst.inc