On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:21:19 -0400
Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
> There is no reason to prevent -preconfig -daemonize. Of course if
> no monitor is defined there will be no way to start the VM,
> but that is a user error.
it was related to how libvirt starts QEMU but I don't recall why anymore,
CCing Daniel
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
> ---
> softmmu/vl.c | 6 ------
> 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c
> index 7f39ebdfee..dbb72e621e 100644
> --- a/softmmu/vl.c
> +++ b/softmmu/vl.c
> @@ -4027,12 +4027,6 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
> }
>
> if (is_daemonized()) {
> - if (!preconfig_exit_requested) {
> - error_report("'preconfig' and 'daemonize' options are "
> - "mutually exclusive");
> - exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> - }
> -
> /* According to documentation and historically, -nographic redirects
> * serial port, parallel port and monitor to stdio, which does not
> work
> * with -daemonize. We can redirect these to null instead, but since
