The error message changes from

    tap: open vhost char device failed

to

    Could not open '/dev/vhost-net': REASON

I think the exact file name is more useful to know than the file's
purpose.

We could put back the "tap: " prefix with error_prepend().  Not
worth the bother.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
---
 net/tap.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/tap.c b/net/tap.c
index abe3b2d036..bfba3fd7a7 100644
--- a/net/tap.c
+++ b/net/tap.c
@@ -747,8 +747,7 @@ static void net_init_tap_one(const NetdevTapOptions *tap, NetClientState *peer,
         } else {
             vhostfd = open("/dev/vhost-net", O_RDWR);
             if (vhostfd < 0) {
-                error_setg_errno(errp, errno,
-                                 "tap: open vhost char device failed");
+                error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, "/dev/vhost-net");
                 goto failed;
             }
             if (!qemu_set_blocking(vhostfd, false, errp)) {
-- 
2.49.0

On 21/11/25 13:14, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> The error message changes from
> 
>      tap: open vhost char device failed
> 
> to
> 
>      Could not open '/dev/vhost-net': REASON
> 
> I think the exact file name is more useful to know than the file's
> purpose.
> 
> We could put back the "tap: " prefix with error_prepend().  Not
> worth the bother.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> ---
>   net/tap.c | 3 +--
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>