From: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> the former is not actually used by explicit backend, so instead of silently ignoring the option in non valid context, exit with error.
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200409134133.11339-1-imamm...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- softmmu/vl.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c index 58a40bcfc1..32c0047889 100644 --- a/softmmu/vl.c +++ b/softmmu/vl.c @@ -4315,6 +4315,11 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) "explicitly specified 'memory-backend' property"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } + if (mem_path) { + error_report("'-mem-path' can't be used together with" + "'-machine memory-backend'"); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } ram_size = backend_size; } -- 2.18.2