Given that you know what the problem is, it would probably have been faster to post a patch than just updating the bug and marking it confirmed....
-- Silently fail with wrong vde socket dir https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/676029 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: Confirmed Bug description: Hi, Using qemu 0.12.5, kvm silently fail with exit code 1 when using -net vde and a wrong path for sock. Actually, the sock option is mean to be the socket dir of the vde_switch, not the socket itself. With -net vde,sock=/var/run/vde/vde0/ctl , strace ends with the following messages : connect(7, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/vde/vde0/ctl/ctl"}, 110) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory) close(7) = 0 close(8) = 0 exit_group(1) = ? root ~# Please add a meaningful message. Regards, Étienne