The message has never been true in the case of non tap networking, so only tell that userland networking will be used if possible.
Signed-off-by: Eugenio Pérez <epere...@redhat.com> --- hw/net/virtio-net.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/net/virtio-net.c b/hw/net/virtio-net.c index 8c5c4e5a9d..5933c0961c 100644 --- a/hw/net/virtio-net.c +++ b/hw/net/virtio-net.c @@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ static void virtio_net_vhost_status(VirtIONet *n, uint8_t status) NetClientState *nc = qemu_get_queue(n->nic); int queue_pairs = n->multiqueue ? n->max_queue_pairs : 1; int cvq = n->max_ncs - n->max_queue_pairs; + bool tap_backend = nc->peer->info->type == NET_CLIENT_DRIVER_TAP; if (!get_vhost_net(nc->peer)) { return; @@ -258,9 +259,9 @@ static void virtio_net_vhost_status(VirtIONet *n, uint8_t status) int r, i; if (n->needs_vnet_hdr_swap) { - error_report("backend does not support %s vnet headers; " - "falling back on userspace virtio", - virtio_is_big_endian(vdev) ? "BE" : "LE"); + error_report("backend does not support %s vnet headers%s", + virtio_is_big_endian(vdev) ? "BE" : "LE", + tap_backend ? "; falling back on userspace virtio" : ""); return; } @@ -288,8 +289,8 @@ static void virtio_net_vhost_status(VirtIONet *n, uint8_t status) n->vhost_started = 1; r = vhost_net_start(vdev, n->nic->ncs, queue_pairs, cvq); if (r < 0) { - error_report("unable to start vhost net: %d: " - "falling back on userspace virtio", -r); + error_report("unable to start vhost net: %d%s", -r, + tap_backend ? " falling back on userspace virtio" : ""); n->vhost_started = 0; } } else { -- 2.27.0