[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] verbose error when /dev/kqemu can't be open

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] verbose error when /dev/kqemu can't be open

[Robert Millan]

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Please can you apply this tiny patch to make /dev/kqemu open failures more
verbose?

It'll help the user distinguish between ENOENT, EPERM and ENXIO, since they
are all common causes of open failure.

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--- qemu-0.8.2/kqemu.c~	2006-07-22 19:23:34.000000000 +0200
+++ qemu-0.8.2/kqemu.c	2007-02-06 16:04:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
     kqemu_fd = open(KQEMU_DEVICE, O_RDWR);
 #endif
     if (kqemu_fd == KQEMU_INVALID_FD) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "Could not open '%s' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated\n", KQEMU_DEVICE);
+        fprintf(stderr, "Could not open '%s' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated: %s\n", KQEMU_DEVICE, strerror(errno));
         return -1;
     }
     version = 0;