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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>

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>

diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 3d72d21..29c9373 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -1807,9 +1807,17 @@ 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());
@@ -1824,6 +1832,7 @@ static void help(int exitcode)
            "\n"
            "When using -nographic, press 'ctrl-a h' to get some help.\n");
 
+    print_rh_warning();
     exit(exitcode);
 }