qemu-kvm/0017-Add-support-statement-to-help-output.patch
Miroslav Rezanina fbc62c39fd * Tue Sep 10 2024 Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com> - 9.1.0-1
- Rebase to QEMU 9.1.0 [RHEL-41246]
- Resolves: RHEL-41246
  (Rebase qemu-9.1 for RHEL 10.0)
2024-09-10 02:43:46 -04:00

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From e46f7b696ec32b18969c9cd7c1553d7d30e489b3 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
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 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);
}
--
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