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.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250103155411.721759-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index d6809f9..63b46fd 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -74,12 +74,6 @@
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 cb13880..c6616ce 100644
--- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst
+++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
@@ -555,6 +555,12 @@
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/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index cc694d3..7090d59 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -4976,19 +4976,6 @@
``-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 @@
``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``
diff --git a/system/vl.c b/system/vl.c
index 0843b7a..3c5bd36 100644
--- a/system/vl.c
+++ b/system/vl.c
@@ -3611,15 +3611,6 @@
/* 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;
