On 26.04.2018 20:44, Alex Bennée wrote: > > Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> writes: > >> On 26.04.2018 18:09, Alex Bennée wrote: >>> >>> Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> writes: >>> >>>> On 25.04.2018 17:33, Alex Bennée wrote: >>>>> People following old instructions for QEMU get the message "No machine >>>>> specified, and there is no default" and run -machine help to pick a >>>>> new machine. Lay people might consider the null-machine to be such a >>>>> basic starting point but they won't get far. This leads to confusion, >>>>> see https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1766896 as an example. >>>>> >>>>> I'm open to better words - I figured "THIS PROBABLY ISN'T WHAT YOU >>>>> WANT" seemed less helpful though. >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> >>>>> --- >>>>> hw/core/null-machine.c | 2 +- >>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >>>>> >>>>> diff --git a/hw/core/null-machine.c b/hw/core/null-machine.c >>>>> index cde4d3eb57..72f0815045 100644 >>>>> --- a/hw/core/null-machine.c >>>>> +++ b/hw/core/null-machine.c >>>>> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ static void machine_none_init(MachineState *mch) >>>>> >>>>> static void machine_none_machine_init(MachineClass *mc) >>>>> { >>>>> - mc->desc = "empty machine"; >>>>> + mc->desc = "empty machine (for probing/QMP)";
Actually, thinking about this again, what about something like: "empty machine (for experts only)" or: "empty machine (use only if you know what you are doing)" or something similar? Thomas
