We likely don't want to maintain the legacy -net options forever, so let's start informing the users that this option will be removed in a future version. However, there are two cases where we should not spill out a message yet: First is the "-net nic" option which might still be required to configure on-board NICs that can not be handled via "-netdev" yet, and second is the "-net user" default option that is created automatically when no other networking option has been specified.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> --- net/net.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/net.c b/net/net.c index ade6051..2593961 100644 --- a/net/net.c +++ b/net/net.c @@ -1006,6 +1006,12 @@ static int net_client_init1(const void *object, int is_netdev, Error **errp) return -1; } + if (opts->type != NET_CLIENT_OPTIONS_KIND_NIC && + (!default_net || opts->type != NET_CLIENT_OPTIONS_KIND_USER)) { + error_report("Deprecated net option - " + "this will be removed in a future version!"); + } + if (!net_client_init_fun[opts->type]) { error_setg(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE, "type", "a net backend type (maybe it is not compiled " -- 1.8.3.1