From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50367) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4AuS-0002vy-P4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:28:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4AuM-0001P3-MP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:28:20 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52382) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4AuM-0001Og-FO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:28:14 -0400 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r6UESCu6008862 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:28:13 -0400 Received: from miglaptop.brq.redhat.com (dhcp-26-175.brq.redhat.com [10.34.26.175]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r6UESBb3017344 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:28:11 -0400 From: Michal Novotny Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:28:08 +0200 Message-Id: <5ce704edab8951c4e244d1e33e85d384dabb368e.1375194476.git.minovotn@redhat.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vl.c: Output error on invalid machine type provided List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Output error message when user provides the invalid machine type on the command line. This also saves time to find what issue is when you upgrade from one version of qemu to another version that doesn't support required machine type any longer. Michal Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny --- vl.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c index 25b8f2f..4455b26 100644 --- a/vl.c +++ b/vl.c @@ -2671,6 +2671,10 @@ static QEMUMachine *machine_parse(const char *name) if (machine) { return machine; } + + if (*name != '0') + printf("Error: Unsupported machine type '%s'\n", name); + printf("Supported machines are:\n"); for (m = first_machine; m != NULL; m = m->next) { if (m->alias) { -- 1.7.11.7