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authorCole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>2022-02-20 10:39:27 -0500
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man: virt-install: Update --controller docs
Drop type value lists, add example invocations, document q35_pcie_root_ports Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
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@@ -1489,20 +1489,25 @@ See ``https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsAddress`` for details.
**Syntax:** ``--controller`` OPTIONS
-Attach a controller device to the guest. TYPE is one of:
-``ide``, ``fdc``, ``scsi``, ``sata``, ``virtio-serial``, or ``usb`` .
+Attach a controller device to the guest.
-Controller also supports the special values ``usb2`` and ``usb3`` to
-specify which version of the USB controller should be used (version 2
-or 3).
+Some example invocations:
-Some example suboptions:
+``--controller usb2``
+ Add a full USB2 controller setup
+
+``--controller usb3``
+ Add a USB3 controller
+
+``--controller type=usb,model=none``
+ Disable USB entirely
+
+``--controller type=scsi,model=virtio-scsi``
+ Add a VirtIO SCSI controller
-``model``
- Controller model. These may vary according to the hypervisor and its
- version. Most commonly used models are e.g. ``auto`` , ``virtio-scsi``
- for the ``scsi`` controller, ``ehci`` or ``none``for the ``usb``
- controller.
+``--controller q35_pcie_root_ports=NUM``
+ Control the number of default ``pcie-root-port`` controller devices
+ we add to the new VM by default, if the VM will use the q35 machine type.
Use --controller=? to see a list of all available sub options.
Complete details at https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsControllers