From: Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> When user tries to use read-only whitelist format in the command line option, failure message was "'foo' invalid format". It might be invalid only for writable, but valid for read-only, so it is confusing. Give the user easier to understand information.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> --- blockdev.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/blockdev.c b/blockdev.c index bc7016a..d3500c6 100644 --- a/blockdev.c +++ b/blockdev.c @@ -487,7 +487,11 @@ static DriveInfo *blockdev_init(QemuOpts *all_opts, drv = bdrv_find_whitelisted_format(buf, ro); if (!drv) { - error_report("'%s' invalid format", buf); + if (!ro && bdrv_find_whitelisted_format(buf, !ro)) { + error_report("'%s' can be only used as read-only device.", buf); + } else { + error_report("'%s' invalid format", buf); + } return NULL; } } -- 1.8.3.1