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diff --git a/results/scraper/launchpad-without-comments/1719689 b/results/scraper/launchpad-without-comments/1719689 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..97f21cf95 --- /dev/null +++ b/results/scraper/launchpad-without-comments/1719689 @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +[feature request] add flag to treat warnings as errors + +Since booting could potentially take a lot of time and warnings are likely to indicate that something is wrong, it would be useful to have a command line flag which would abort the boot if there are any warnings. + +An example might be network configuration. The following output most likely indicates that there is something the user has to fix before starting and being able to use the guest os. + +Warning: hub port hub0port0 has no peer +Warning: vlan 0 with no nics +Warning: netdev hub0port0 has no peer +Warning: requested NIC (anonymous, model vitrio-net-device) was not created (not supported by this machine?) + +Ideally, there would be an option the user could pass which would cause qemu to print these warnings then exit, rather than boot the kernel. + +Alternatively, or additionally, a dry run option would be helpful for the same purpose: making sure qemu get to the booting the kernel stage with everything in working order so that you do not have to wait for the kernel to boot and then shut down while debugging things like networking (things which can be debugged (at least partially) without booting, or trying to boot, the guest os). \ No newline at end of file |