diff --git a/website/source/docs/builders/qemu.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/builders/qemu.html.markdown index ae5d4464f..294d5d563 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/builders/qemu.html.markdown +++ b/website/source/docs/builders/qemu.html.markdown @@ -117,10 +117,10 @@ can be configured for this builder. * `disk_cache` (string) - The cache mode to use for disk. Allowed values values include any of "writethrough", "writeback", "none", "unsafe" or - "directsync". + "directsync". By default, this is set to "writeback". * `disk_discard` (string) - The discard mode to use for disk. Allowed values - include any of "unmap" or "ignore". + include any of "unmap" or "ignore". By default, this is set to "ignore". * `disk_image` (boolean) - Packer defaults to building from an ISO file, this parameter controls whether the ISO URL supplied is actually a bootable @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ can be configured for this builder. * `format` (string) - Either "qcow2" or "raw", this specifies the output format of the virtual machine image. This defaults to "qcow2". -* `headless` (boolean) - Packer defaults to building virtual machines by +* `headless` (boolean) - Packer defaults to building QEMU virtual machines by launching a GUI that shows the console of the machine being built. When this value is set to true, the machine will start without a console. @@ -188,6 +188,11 @@ can be configured for this builder. By default this is "output-BUILDNAME" where "BUILDNAME" is the name of the build. +* `qemu_binary` (string) - The name of the Qemu binary to look for. This + defaults to "qemu-system-x86_64", but may need to be changed for some + platforms. For example "qemu-kvm", or "qemu-system-i386" may be a better + choice for some systems. + * `qemuargs` (array of array of strings) - Allows complete control over the qemu command line (though not, at this time, qemu-img). Each array of strings makes up a command line switch that overrides matching default @@ -225,11 +230,6 @@ qemu-system-x86 command. The arguments are all printed for review. qemu-system-x86 -m 1024m --no-acpi -netdev user,id=mynet0,hostfwd=hostip:hostport-guestip:guestport -device virtio-net,netdev=mynet0" -* `qemu_binary` (string) - The name of the Qemu binary to look for. This - defaults to "qemu-system-x86_64", but may need to be changed for some - platforms. For example "qemu-kvm", or "qemu-system-i386" may be a better - choice for some systems. - * `shutdown_command` (string) - The command to use to gracefully shut down the machine once all the provisioning is done. By default this is an empty string, which tells Packer to just forcefully shut down the machine.