Tweak the error message so that it does not mention SCSI passthrough. That can be confusing because you can have scsi=on even for file-backed image, which obviously do not support SCSI passthrough at the block layer level.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- hw/block/virtio-blk.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/block/virtio-blk.c b/hw/block/virtio-blk.c index 9acbc3a..7bed3f0 100644 --- a/hw/block/virtio-blk.c +++ b/hw/block/virtio-blk.c @@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ static uint64_t virtio_blk_get_features(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint64_t features, virtio_clear_feature(&features, VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT); if (__virtio_has_feature(features, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1)) { if (s->conf.scsi) { - error_setg(errp, "Virtio 1.0 does not support scsi passthrough!"); + error_setg(errp, "Please set scsi=off for virtio-blk devices in order to use virtio 1.0"); return 0; } virtio_add_feature(&features, VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT); -- 2.1.4