There is no reason to prevent -preconfig -daemonize. Of course if no monitor is defined there will be no way to start the VM, but that is a user error.
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- softmmu/vl.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c index fae72a9071..c45a99a2bf 100644 --- a/softmmu/vl.c +++ b/softmmu/vl.c @@ -4028,12 +4028,6 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) } if (is_daemonized()) { - if (!preconfig_exit_requested) { - error_report("'preconfig' and 'daemonize' options are " - "mutually exclusive"); - exit(EXIT_FAILURE); - } - /* According to documentation and historically, -nographic redirects * serial port, parallel port and monitor to stdio, which does not work * with -daemonize. We can redirect these to null instead, but since -- 2.26.2