qemu-options: Mark -virtioconsole as deprecated

The qemu-doc already states that this option is only maintained for
backward compatibility and "-device virtconsole" should be used
instead. So let's take the next step and mark this option officially
as deprecated.

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1525446790-16139-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 12e31d1aa9..b928e3e439 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -3587,6 +3587,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
                 }
                 break;
             case QEMU_OPTION_virtiocon:
+                warn_report("This option is deprecated, "
+                            "use '-device virtconsole' instead");
                 add_device_config(DEV_VIRTCON, optarg);
                 default_virtcon = 0;
                 if (strncmp(optarg, "mon:", 4) == 0) {