qemu-kvm/0013-Add-support-statement-to-help-output.patch
Miroslav Rezanina 9c1c81c488 * Mon Sep 04 2023 Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com> - 8.1.0-1
- Rebase to QEMU 8.1 [RHEL-870]
- Resolves: RHEL-870
  (Rebase qemu-kvm to QEMU 8.1.0)
2023-09-04 04:01:07 -04:00

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From b6d7732d3fb071c96a86d8e98d8ef9f73932deaf 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>
---
softmmu/vl.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c
index b0b96f67fa..e24c74771b 100644
--- a/softmmu/vl.c
+++ b/softmmu/vl.c
@@ -835,9 +835,17 @@ 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());
@@ -863,6 +871,7 @@ static void help(int exitcode)
"\n"
QEMU_HELP_BOTTOM "\n");
+ print_rh_warning();
exit(exitcode);
}
--
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