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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ for debugging, profiling, and observing execution.
3. Run the virtual machine to produce a trace file:
- qemu -trace events=/tmp/events ... # your normal QEMU invocation
+ qemu --trace events=/tmp/events ... # your normal QEMU invocation
4. Pretty-print the binary trace file:
@@ -157,11 +157,11 @@ The state of events can also be queried and modified through monitor commands:
* trace-event NAME on|off
Enable/disable a given trace event or a group of events (using wildcards).
-The "-trace events=<file>" command line argument can be used to enable the
+The "--trace events=<file>" command line argument can be used to enable the
events listed in <file> from the very beginning of the program. This file must
contain one event name per line.
-If a line in the "-trace events=<file>" file begins with a '-', the trace event
+If a line in the "--trace events=<file>" file begins with a '-', the trace event
will be disabled instead of enabled. This is useful when a wildcard was used
to enable an entire family of events but one noisy event needs to be disabled.