From: "Benoît Canet" <benoit.canet@irqsave.net>
To: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: Print its file name if backing file opening failed
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 13:12:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131107121240.GA2921@irqsave.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383809692-11158-1-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com>
Le Thursday 07 Nov 2013 à 15:34:52 (+0800), Fam Zheng a écrit :
> If backing file doesn't exist, the error message is confusing and
> misleading:
>
> $ qemu /tmp/a.qcow2
> qemu: could not open disk image /tmp/a.qcow2: Could not open file: No
> such file or directory
>
> But...
>
> $ ls /tmp/a.qcow2
> /tmp/a.qcow2
>
> $ qemu-img info /tmp/a.qcow2
> image: /tmp/a.qcow2
> file format: qcow2
> virtual size: 8.0G (8589934592 bytes)
> disk size: 196K
> cluster_size: 65536
> backing file: /tmp/b.qcow2
>
> Because...
>
> $ ls /tmp/b.qcow2
> ls: cannot access /tmp/b.qcow2: No such file or directory
>
> This is not intuitive. It's better to have the missing file's name in
> the error message. With this patch:
>
> $ qemu-io -c 'read 0 512' /tmp/a.qcow2
> qemu-io: can't open device /tmp/a.qcow2: Could not open backing
> file: Could not open '/stor/vm/arch.raw': No such file or directory
> no file open, try 'help open'
>
> Which is a little bit better.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
> ---
> block.c | 3 ++-
> block/raw-posix.c | 1 -
> block/raw-win32.c | 1 -
> tests/qemu-iotests/051.out | 2 +-
> tests/qemu-iotests/069.out | 2 +-
> 5 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
> index f706634..a8dbcfc 100644
> --- a/block.c
> +++ b/block.c
> @@ -1009,7 +1009,8 @@ int bdrv_open_backing_file(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options, Error **errp)
> bdrv_unref(bs->backing_hd);
> bs->backing_hd = NULL;
> bs->open_flags |= BDRV_O_NO_BACKING;
> - error_propagate(errp, local_err);
> + error_setg(errp, "Could not open backing file: %s",
> + error_get_pretty(local_err));
> return ret;
> }
> pstrcpy(bs->backing_file, sizeof(bs->backing_file),
> diff --git a/block/raw-posix.c b/block/raw-posix.c
> index f6d48bb..e1b1ba2 100644
> --- a/block/raw-posix.c
> +++ b/block/raw-posix.c
> @@ -310,7 +310,6 @@ static int raw_open_common(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options,
> if (ret == -EROFS) {
> ret = -EACCES;
> }
> - error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "Could not open file");
> goto fail;
> }
> s->fd = fd;
> diff --git a/block/raw-win32.c b/block/raw-win32.c
> index 2741e4d..2bad5a3 100644
> --- a/block/raw-win32.c
> +++ b/block/raw-win32.c
> @@ -280,7 +280,6 @@ static int raw_open(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options, int flags,
> } else {
> ret = -EINVAL;
> }
> - error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "Could not open file");
> goto fail;
> }
>
> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/051.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/051.out
> index 15deef6..d351935 100644
> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/051.out
> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/051.out
> @@ -226,6 +226,6 @@ Testing: -drive file=foo:bar
> QEMU_PROG: -drive file=foo:bar: could not open disk image foo:bar: Unknown protocol
>
> Testing: -drive file.filename=foo:bar
> -QEMU_PROG: -drive file.filename=foo:bar: could not open disk image ide0-hd0: Could not open file: No such file or directory
> +QEMU_PROG: -drive file.filename=foo:bar: could not open disk image ide0-hd0: Could not open 'foo:bar': No such file or directory
>
> *** done
> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/069.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/069.out
> index 3648814..b48306d 100644
> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/069.out
> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/069.out
> @@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ QA output created by 069
>
> Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base', fmt=IMGFMT size=131072
> Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=131072 backing_file='TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base'
> -qemu-io: can't open device TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT: Could not open file: No such file or directory
> +qemu-io: can't open device TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT: Could not open backing file: Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base': No such file or directory
> *** done
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-07 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-07 7:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: Print its file name if backing file opening failed Fam Zheng
2013-11-07 12:12 ` Benoît Canet [this message]
2013-11-07 13:17 ` Eric Blake
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