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Daniel P. Berrangé authored
Currently at startup if using cache=none on a filesystem lacking
O_DIRECT such as tmpfs, at startup QEMU prints

qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/tmp/foo.img,cache=none: file system may not support O_DIRECT
qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/tmp/foo.img,cache=none: Could not open '/tmp/foo.img': Invalid argument

while at QMP level the hint is missing, so QEMU reports just

  "error": {
      "class": "GenericError",
      "desc": "Could not open '/tmp/foo.img': Invalid argument"
  }

which is close to useless for the end user trying to figure out what
they did wrong.

With this change at startup QEMU prints

qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/tmp/foo.img,cache=none: Unable to open '/tmp/foo.img': filesystem does not support O_DIRECT

while at the QMP level QEMU reports a massively more informative

  "error": {
     "class": "GenericError",
     "desc": "Unable to open '/tmp/foo.img': filesystem does not support O_DIRECT"
  }

Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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