From a766091a8693181b77b0b1e3b5de9a05aab25c18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eduardo Habkost Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:53:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 01/16] 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 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 --- vl.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina --- 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