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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote : Re: [Ubuntu17.10] qemu gets a trap when given a negative number to 'maxcpus' argument

Hi,
that is upstream commit [1].
I thank you for the report but this only makes a fatal error a nice-error-msg error.
It will be nice to pick this up with the next release of qemu, but that will be a no-op when we merge the new version for 18.04.

IMHO this is:
- bad user input leads to error (well that is normal right)
- not unbreaking a use case (one still gets an error, just a nicer one after the fix)
Therefore I'd consider this not important enough for any backport, but instead would track it as low prio task for the next release.
Please feel free to discuss if you disagree with that assessment.

[1]: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=c0dd10991903c552811d8cbe9231055b1b3a7ebd