From c219069712b16be5664bfa6a4fcec4aa261d21c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eduardo Habkost Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:53:17 +0100 Subject: Add support statement to -help output RH-Author: Eduardo Habkost Message-id: <1386183197-27761-1-git-send-email-ehabkost@redhat.com> Patchwork-id: 55994 O-Subject: [qemu-kvm RHEL7 PATCH] Add support statement to -help output Bugzilla: 972773 RH-Acked-by: Miroslav Rezanina RH-Acked-by: knoel@redhat.com RH-Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini Add support statement to -help output, reporting direct qemu-kvm usage as unsupported by Red Hat, and advising users to use libvirt instead. Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost (cherry picked from commit 2a07700936e39856cc9f149c6a6517f0715536a6) (cherry picked from commit 5dd2f4706e2fef945771949e59a8fcc1b5452de9) --- vl.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c index f9166f5..dd1fadf 100644 --- a/vl.c +++ b/vl.c @@ -1803,9 +1803,17 @@ static void version(void) QEMU_COPYRIGHT "\n"); } +static void print_rh_warning(void) +{ + printf("\nWARNING: Direct use of qemu-kvm from the command line is not supported by Red Hat.\n" + "WARNING: Use libvirt as the stable management interface.\n" + "WARNING: Some command line options listed here may not be available in future releases.\n\n"); +} + static void help(int exitcode) { version(); + print_rh_warning(); printf("usage: %s [options] [disk_image]\n\n" "'disk_image' is a raw hard disk image for IDE hard disk 0\n\n", error_get_progname()); @@ -1822,6 +1830,7 @@ static void help(int exitcode) "\n" QEMU_HELP_BOTTOM "\n"); + print_rh_warning(); exit(exitcode); } -- 1.8.3.1