Improve error reporting on file access

By making the error reporting include strerror(errno), it gives the user
a bit more indication as to why qemu failed.  This is particularly
important for people running qemu as a non root user.

Signed-off-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/hw/pc.c b/hw/pc.c
index 55e1e6394b..06826297e9 100644
--- a/hw/pc.c
+++ b/hw/pc.c
@@ -844,8 +844,8 @@ static void load_linux(void *fw_cfg,
     if (!f || !(kernel_size = get_file_size(f)) ||
 	fread(header, 1, MIN(ARRAY_SIZE(header), kernel_size), f) !=
 	MIN(ARRAY_SIZE(header), kernel_size)) {
-	fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not load kernel '%s'\n",
-		kernel_filename);
+	fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not load kernel '%s': %s\n",
+		kernel_filename, strerror(errno));
 	exit(1);
     }
 
@@ -950,8 +950,8 @@ static void load_linux(void *fw_cfg,
 
 	fi = fopen(initrd_filename, "rb");
 	if (!fi) {
-	    fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not load initial ram disk '%s'\n",
-		    initrd_filename);
+	    fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not load initial ram disk '%s': %s\n",
+		    initrd_filename, strerror(errno));
 	    exit(1);
 	}
 
@@ -959,8 +959,8 @@ static void load_linux(void *fw_cfg,
 	initrd_addr = (initrd_max-initrd_size) & ~4095;
 
 	if (!fread_targphys_ok(initrd_addr, initrd_size, fi)) {
-	    fprintf(stderr, "qemu: read error on initial ram disk '%s'\n",
-		    initrd_filename);
+	    fprintf(stderr, "qemu: read error on initial ram disk '%s': %s\n",
+		    initrd_filename, strerror(errno));
 	    exit(1);
 	}
 	fclose(fi);