On 04/10/2016 14:00, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 01:30:47PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote: >> By default, QEMU uses 'tcg' or the one provided with the "accel" >> property. >> >> But sometime, user wants to use a real accelerator without knowing >> if he really can, with, for instance accel=kvm:tcg. >> In this case, and if the accelerator is not available we >> have a noisy "XXX accelerator not found". > > IMHO it would be better to just remove that warning message > and continue using existing accel=kvm:tcg syntax to specify > the preference of which accelerators to use. > > Only emit "XXX accelerator not found", if there are not > further accelerators listed. eg > > accel=kvm:tcg > > should not print a "KVM accelerator not found" warning > when it falls back to tcg, but a > > accel=kvm > > would print a warning, since no fallback is given.
Something like this? --- a/accel.c +++ b/accel.c @@ -99,7 +99,12 @@ void configure_accelerator(MachineState *ms) p = get_opt_name(buf, sizeof(buf), p, ':'); acc = accel_find(buf); if (!acc) { - fprintf(stderr, "\"%s\" accelerator not found.\n", buf); + if (*p != ':') { + /* to avoid to pollute logs, display error only + * on the last accelerator of the list + */ + fprintf(stderr, "\"%s\" accelerator not found.\n", buf); + } continue; } if (acc->available && !acc->available()) {