Use the new GlobalProperty.errp field to handle compat_props errors. Example output before this change: (with an intentionally broken entry added to PC_COMPAT_1_3 just for testing)
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -machine pc-1.3 qemu-system-x86_64: hw/core/qdev-properties.c:1091: qdev_prop_set_globals_for_type: Assertion `prop->user_provided' failed. Aborted (core dumped) After: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -machine pc-1.3 Unexpected error in x86_cpuid_set_vendor() at /home/ehabkost/rh/proj/virt/qemu/target-i386/cpu.c:1688: qemu-system-x86_64: can't apply global cpu.vendor=x: Property '.vendor' doesn't take value 'x' Aborted (core dumped) Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <mar...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> --- hw/core/machine.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/core/machine.c b/hw/core/machine.c index 052517d..2fe6ff6 100644 --- a/hw/core/machine.c +++ b/hw/core/machine.c @@ -572,6 +572,8 @@ void machine_register_compat_props(MachineState *machine) for (i = 0; i < mc->compat_props->len; i++) { p = g_array_index(mc->compat_props, GlobalProperty *, i); + /* Machine compat_props must never cause errors: */ + p->errp = &error_abort; qdev_prop_register_global(p); } } -- 2.5.5