From d2a73465e69118a37a2bbc487b6faa30c9b5a81f 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 --- system/vl.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/system/vl.c b/system/vl.c index 01b8b8e77a..5359231bf5 100644 --- a/system/vl.c +++ b/system/vl.c @@ -877,9 +877,17 @@ 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", g_get_prgname()); @@ -905,6 +913,7 @@ static void help(int exitcode) "\n" QEMU_HELP_BOTTOM "\n"); + print_rh_warning(); exit(exitcode); } -- 2.39.3