[PATCH] Remove the deprecated "-runas" command line option

It has been marked as deprecated two releases ago, so it should be fine now to remove this command line option. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 6 ------ docs/about/removed-features.rst | 6 ++++++ system/vl.c | 9 --------- qemu-options.hx | 15 +-------------- 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index d6809f94ea..63b46fd520 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -74,12 +74,6 @@ configurations (e.g. -smp drawers=1,books=1,clusters=1 for x86 PC machine) is marked deprecated since 9.0, users have to ensure that all the topology members described with -smp are supported by the target machine. -``-runas`` (since 9.1) -'''''''''''''''''''''' - -Use ``-run-with user=..`` instead. - - User-mode emulator command line arguments ----------------------------------------- diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst index cb1388049a..c6616ce05e 100644 --- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst +++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst @@ -555,6 +555,12 @@ to produce an odd effect (rotating input but not display output). But this was never intended or documented behaviour, so we have dropped the options along with the machine models they were intended for. +``-runas`` (removed in 10.0) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +Use ``-run-with user=..`` instead. + + User-mode emulator command line arguments ----------------------------------------- diff --git a/system/vl.c b/system/vl.c index 0843b7ab49..3c5bd36d7d 100644 --- a/system/vl.c +++ b/system/vl.c @@ -3611,15 +3611,6 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv) /* Nothing to be parsed here. Especially, do not error out below. */ break; #if defined(CONFIG_POSIX) - case QEMU_OPTION_runas: - warn_report("-runas is deprecated, use '-run-with user=...' instead"); - if (!os_set_runas(optarg)) { - error_report("User \"%s\" doesn't exist" - " (and is not <uid>:<gid>)", - optarg); - exit(1); - } - break; case QEMU_OPTION_daemonize: os_set_daemonize(true); break; diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index cc694d3b89..7090d59f6f 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -4976,19 +4976,6 @@ SRST ``-nodefaults`` option will disable all those default devices. ERST -#ifndef _WIN32 -DEF("runas", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_runas, \ - "-runas user change to user id user just before starting the VM\n" \ - " user can be numeric uid:gid instead\n", - QEMU_ARCH_ALL) -#endif -SRST -``-runas user`` - Immediately before starting guest execution, drop root privileges, - switching to the specified user. This option is deprecated, use - ``-run-with user=...`` instead. -ERST - DEF("prom-env", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_prom_env, "-prom-env variable=value\n" " set OpenBIOS nvram variables\n", @@ -5176,7 +5163,7 @@ SRST ``chroot=dir`` can be used for doing a chroot to the specified directory immediately before starting the guest execution. This is especially useful - in combination with -runas. + in combination with ``user=...``. ``user=username`` or ``user=uid:gid`` can be used to drop root privileges before starting guest execution. QEMU will use the ``setuid`` and ``setgid`` -- 2.47.1