net: Warn about "-net nic" options which were ignored

Diagnose the case where the user asked for a NIC via "-net nic"
but the board didn't instantiate that NIC (for example where the
user asked for two NICs but the board only supports one). Note
that this diagnostic doesn't apply to NICs created through -device,
because those are always instantiated.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net.c b/net.c
index 68c2840621..a104976b0b 100644
--- a/net.c
+++ b/net.c
@@ -1304,6 +1304,7 @@ void net_check_clients(void)
 {
     VLANState *vlan;
     VLANClientState *vc;
+    int i;
 
     /* Don't warn about the default network setup that you get if
      * no command line -net or -netdev options are specified. There
@@ -1348,6 +1349,20 @@ void net_check_clients(void)
                     vc->name);
         }
     }
+
+    /* Check that all NICs requested via -net nic actually got created.
+     * NICs created via -device don't need to be checked here because
+     * they are always instantiated.
+     */
+    for (i = 0; i < MAX_NICS; i++) {
+        NICInfo *nd = &nd_table[i];
+        if (nd->used && !nd->instantiated) {
+            fprintf(stderr, "Warning: requested NIC (%s, model %s) "
+                    "was not created (not supported by this machine?)\n",
+                    nd->name ? nd->name : "anonymous",
+                    nd->model ? nd->model : "unspecified");
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 static int net_init_client(QemuOpts *opts, void *dummy)