If the user needs to specify the disk geometry, the corresponding parameters of the "-drive" option should be used instead. "-hdachs" is considered as deprecated and might be removed soon.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> --- v2: Removed the trailing dot from the string as suggested by Eric vl.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c index 0b4ed52..478cfdd 100644 --- a/vl.c +++ b/vl.c @@ -3230,6 +3230,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) } } } + error_report("'-hdachs' is deprecated, please use '-drive" + " ...,cyls=c,heads=h,secs=s,trans=t' instead"); break; case QEMU_OPTION_numa: opts = qemu_opts_parse_noisily(qemu_find_opts("numa"), -- 1.8.3.1