On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 05:48:57PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote: > 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
Libvirt didn't request this to best of my knowledge. We don't even use -daemonize, so have no reason to ask to forbid -preconfig with -daemonize. > > > > > 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 > Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|