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authorMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>2016-12-01 03:05:08 +0100
committerMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>2017-02-12 00:47:41 +0100
commit6b33f3ae8b79726ef0812597b8a83c3e82d31514 (patch)
tree15aa8a787d7cc367a904fdeecd64e016d85318a1 /qemu-img.c
parentb135233b0da2b20af4cabc7663e0b65ae896b75f (diff)
qemu-img: Improve commit invalid base message
When trying to invoke qemu-img commit with a base image file name that is not part of the top image's backing chain, the user receives a rather plain "Base not found" error message. This is not really helpful because it does not explain what "not found" means, potentially leaving the user wondering why qemu cannot find a file despite it clearly existing in the file system. Improve the error message by clarifying that "not found" means "not found in the top image's backing chain". Reported-by: Ala Hino <ahino@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20161201020508.24417-1-mreitz@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-img.c')
-rw-r--r--qemu-img.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c
index 74e3362653..933876cfe1 100644
--- a/qemu-img.c
+++ b/qemu-img.c
@@ -912,7 +912,9 @@ static int img_commit(int argc, char **argv)
if (base) {
base_bs = bdrv_find_backing_image(bs, base);
if (!base_bs) {
- error_setg(&local_err, QERR_BASE_NOT_FOUND, base);
+ error_setg(&local_err,
+ "Did not find '%s' in the backing chain of '%s'",
+ base, filename);
goto done;
}
} else {