On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:56:15PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 17.07.2015 um 11:59 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben: > > QEMU silently ignores aio=native if libaio is unavailable. It is > > confusing when aio=native performance is identical to aio=threads > > because the binary was accidentally built without libaio. > > > > Use error_report() because failing would break backward compatibility. > > There are probably users using aio=native who would be inconvenienced if > > QEMU suddenly refused to start their guests. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> > > I hope not too many people are using aio=native without having libaio > compiled in... Can we make it a message like for the case with > aio=native,cache.direct=off, i.e. a deprecation warning that allows us > to make this an error in a few releases?
Yes, I'll move the warning to raw-posix.c so all callers benefit from it.
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