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.
looking some more at the current code, this piece is currently
somewhat broken, so it would indeed exit but 'after' fork
and output error message to nowhere. It happens since
os_daemonize() where moved before it later on, given no
one actually complained since then we probably do not care about it.
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com>
> 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
