diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index bf458f83c32d1a57b4f7c07d138387e1b9da89da..faf5cf8d453dddd2a21dec8373f481c69c1df937 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -2146,7 +2146,7 @@ Example:
 @example
 qemu -m 512 -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=512M,mem-path=/hugetlbfs,share=on \
      -numa node,memdev=mem \
-     -chardev socket,path=/path/to/socket \
+     -chardev socket,id=chr0,path=/path/to/socket \
      -netdev type=vhost-user,id=net0,chardev=chr0 \
      -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0
 @end example