From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 16:42:37 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: S390: Tell user why VM creation failed
X-Git-Tag: v0.13.0-rc0~890
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0104dcacf374cb9ceff078e9470cc0cc5bb7c8ec;p=thirdparty%2Fqemu.git

S390: Tell user why VM creation failed

The KVM kernel module on S390 refuses to create a VM when the switch_amode
kernel parameter is not used.

Since that is not exactly obvious, let's give the user a nice warning.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
---

diff --git a/kvm-all.c b/kvm-all.c
index 6324635d3fa..7aa5e57e88d 100644
--- a/kvm-all.c
+++ b/kvm-all.c
@@ -607,8 +607,13 @@ int kvm_init(int smp_cpus)
     }
 
     s->vmfd = kvm_ioctl(s, KVM_CREATE_VM, 0);
-    if (s->vmfd < 0)
+    if (s->vmfd < 0) {
+#ifdef TARGET_S390X
+        fprintf(stderr, "Please add the 'switch_amode' kernel parameter to "
+                        "your host kernel command line\n");
+#endif
         goto err;
+    }
 
     /* initially, KVM allocated its own memory and we had to jump through
      * hooks to make phys_ram_base point to this.  Modern versions of KVM