qemu-kvm/0013-Add-support-statement-to-help-output.patch
Miroslav Rezanina d69bd6ee5f * Tue Jan 02 2024 Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com> - 8.2.0-1
- Rebase to QEMU 8.2.0 [RHEL-14111]
- Fix machine type compatibility [RHEL-17067 RHEL-17068]
- Add 9.4.0 machine type [RHEL-17168 RHEL-19117 RHEL-19119]
- Resolves: RHEL-14111
  (Rebase qemu-kvm to QEMU 8.2.0)
- Resolves: RHEL-17067
  (Check/fix machine type compatibility for qemu-kvm 8.2.0 [s390x])
- Resolves: RHEL-17068
  (Check/fix machine type compatibility for qemu-kvm 8.2.0 [x86_64])
- Resolves: RHEL-17168
  (Introduce virt-rhel9.4.0 arm-virt machine type [aarch64])
- Resolves: RHEL-19117
  (Introduce virt-rhel9.4.0 arm-virt machine type [x86_64])
- Resolves: RHEL-19119
  (Introduce virt-rhel9.4.0 arm-virt machine type [s390x])
2024-01-02 04:26:49 -05:00

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From 424f14d123fe1043518758605d94ed5ba50e52ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:53:17 +0100
Subject: Add support statement to -help output
RH-Author: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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 <mrezanin@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: knoel@redhat.com
RH-Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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 <ehabkost@redhat.com>
---
system/vl.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/system/vl.c b/system/vl.c
index 2bcd9efb9a..93635ffc5b 100644
--- a/system/vl.c
+++ b/system/vl.c
@@ -870,9 +870,17 @@ 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());
@@ -898,6 +906,7 @@ static void help(int exitcode)
"\n"
QEMU_HELP_BOTTOM "\n");
+ print_rh_warning();
exit(exitcode);
}
--
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