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From 283a0e258dc2f3b83c58e6f948bafe430cd2c1d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:53:17 +0100
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Subject: Add support statement to -help output
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RH-Author: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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Message-id: <1386183197-27761-1-git-send-email-ehabkost@redhat.com>
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Patchwork-id: 55994
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O-Subject: [qemu-kvm RHEL7 PATCH] Add support statement to -help output
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Bugzilla: 972773
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RH-Acked-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>
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RH-Acked-by: knoel@redhat.com
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RH-Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Add support statement to -help output, reporting direct qemu-kvm usage
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as unsupported by Red Hat, and advising users to use libvirt instead.
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Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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---
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 softmmu/vl.c | 9 +++++++++
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 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c
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index 5115221efe..17188df528 100644
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--- a/softmmu/vl.c
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+++ b/softmmu/vl.c
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@@ -834,9 +834,17 @@ static void version(void)
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            QEMU_COPYRIGHT "\n");
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 }
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+static void print_rh_warning(void)
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+{
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+    printf("\nWARNING: Direct use of qemu-kvm from the command line is not supported by Red Hat.\n"
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+             "WARNING: Use libvirt as the stable management interface.\n"
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+             "WARNING: Some command line options listed here may not be available in future releases.\n\n");
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+}
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+
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 static void help(int exitcode)
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 {
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     version();
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+    print_rh_warning();
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     printf("usage: %s [options] [disk_image]\n\n"
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            "'disk_image' is a raw hard disk image for IDE hard disk 0\n\n",
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             g_get_prgname());
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@@ -862,6 +870,7 @@ static void help(int exitcode)
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            "\n"
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            QEMU_HELP_BOTTOM "\n");
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+    print_rh_warning();
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     exit(exitcode);
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 }
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-- 
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2.31.1
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