From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit 7e396954611d827dc236a114ed22a781687c002d) (cherry picked from commit 23e9cc95fa9cb8046a75613e0cc9ac92ad647c04) --- fish/guestfish.pod | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/fish/guestfish.pod b/fish/guestfish.pod index d1d9827..8c34cbf 100644 --- a/fish/guestfish.pod +++ b/fish/guestfish.pod @@ -1027,6 +1027,24 @@ and cleans up guestfish when the script exits: # ... +=head2 REMOTE CONTROL DOES NOT WORK WITH I<-a> ETC. OPTIONS + +Options such as I<-a>, I<--add>, I<-N>, I<--new> etc don't interact +properly with remote support. They are processed locally, and not +sent through to the remote guestfish. In particular this won't do +what you expect: + + guestfish --remote --add disk.img + +Don't use these options. Use the equivalent commands instead, eg: + + guestfish --remote add-drive disk.img + +or: + + guestfish --remote + ><fs> add disk.img + =head2 REMOTE CONTROL RUN COMMAND HANGING Using the C<run> (or C<launch>) command remotely in a command -- 1.8.3.1