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Added by Michael Tokarev almost 14 years ago

give some useful error messages when tap open

In net/tap-linux.c, when manipulation of /dev/net/tun fails, it prints
(with fprintf) something like this:

warning: could not open /dev/net/tun: no virtual network emulation

this has 2 issues:
1) it is not a warning really, it's a fatal error (kvm exits after
that),
2) there's no indication as of what's actually wrong: printing errno there
is helpful.

The patch below removes the "warning" prefix, uses %m (since it's linux,
%m is available as format modifier), and changes fprintf() to %qemu_error().
Now it prints something like this instead:

could not configure /dev/net/tun: Device or resource busy

(there are 2 messages like that in the same function)

This fixes Debian bug #578154, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578154

Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>

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