From a766091a8693181b77b0b1e3b5de9a05aab25c18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:53:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 01/16] 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>
Bugzilla: 972773
Brew scratch build: http://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=6676272
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>
---
vl.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>
---
vl.c | 9 +++++++++
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 4a79f62..b9074c5 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -1993,9 +1993,17 @@ static void version(void)
printf("QEMU emulator version " QEMU_VERSION QEMU_PKGVERSION ", Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard\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());
@@ -2010,6 +2018,7 @@ static void help(int exitcode)
"\n"
"When using -nographic, press 'ctrl-a h' to get some help.\n");
+ print_rh_warning();
exit(exitcode);
}
--
1.7.1