On 23 February 2012 09:48, Markus Armbruster <[email protected]> wrote: > andrzej zaborowski <[email protected]> writes: > >> On 23 February 2012 09:20, Gerd Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote: >>> $subject says all, which pretty much breaks libvirt-managed qemu ... >> >> Also "device_add nonexistent-device" in the monitor gives a rather >> unhelpful message: >> >> Parameter 'driver' expects device type > > "-device foo" is really shorthand for "-device driver=foo". And deep > down in the bowels of qdev, where the error get reported, the value of > parameter "driver" gets treated like any other parameter's value: if > it's not within ACCEPTABLE-SET, complain "Parameter 'NAME' expected > ACCEPTABLE-SET".
Yeah, I looked at this code, perhaps "'INPUT' is not a valid 'ACCEPTABLE-SET'" would be more helpful. In my message I was talking about the monitor command though. Something like "you typoed in the device name" should be reported by the human readable monitor. Cheers
