Someone mentioned to me that they interpreted this section of the KVM driver page as suggesting that new guests should be created by creating a qemu commandline and converting it to XML with domxml-from-native. I don't think that's the intent of domxml-from-native, so I added that clarification. v2 Suggstion from eblake: Add link to the applications page --- docs/drvqemu.html.in | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/drvqemu.html.in b/docs/drvqemu.html.in index fa5496c..fc76829 100644 --- a/docs/drvqemu.html.in +++ b/docs/drvqemu.html.in @@ -432,9 +432,16 @@ mount -t cgroup none /dev/cgroup -o devices <h3><a name="xmlimport">Converting from QEMU args to domain XML</a></h3> <p> - The <code>virsh domxml-from-native</code> provides a way to convert an - existing set of QEMU args into a guest description using libvirt Domain XML - that can then be used by libvirt. + The <code>virsh domxml-from-native</code> provides a way to + convert an existing set of QEMU args into a guest description + using libvirt Domain XML that can then be used by libvirt. + Please note that this command is intended to be used to convert + existing qemu guests previously started from the command line to + be managed through libvirt. It should not be used a method of + creating new guests from scratch. New guests should be created + using an application calling the libvirt APIs (see + the <a href="apps.html">libvirt applications page</a> for some + examples) or by manually crafting XML to pass to virsh. </p> <pre>$ cat &gt; demo.args &lt;&lt;EOF -- 1.7.7.6