[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] S390: Tell user why VM creation failed

[Alexander Graf]

The KVM kernel module on S390 refuses to create a VM when the switch_amode
kernel parameter is not used.

Since that is not exactly obvious, let's give the user a nice warning.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>
---
 kvm-all.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kvm-all.c b/kvm-all.c
index 534ead0..acf7e31 100644
--- a/kvm-all.c
+++ b/kvm-all.c
@@ -609,8 +609,13 @@ int kvm_init(int smp_cpus)
     }
 
     s->vmfd = kvm_ioctl(s, KVM_CREATE_VM, 0);
-    if (s->vmfd < 0)
+    if (s->vmfd < 0) {
+#ifdef TARGET_S390X
+        fprintf(stderr, "Please add the 'switch_amode' kernel parameter to "
+                        "your host kernel command line\n");
+#endif
         goto err;
+    }
 
     /* initially, KVM allocated its own memory and we had to jump through
      * hooks to make phys_ram_base point to this.  Modern versions of KVM
-- 
1.6.0.2