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Philipp Schuster 060c9de07f vmm: introduce nice error messages on exit (CHV and ch-remote)
With the foundations of each error type implementing std::error::Error,
we can now nicely walk the `.source()` chain and print an error trace.

This commit introduces improved user-facing error printing when:
- Cloud Hypervisor fails with an error
- ch-remote fails (client error)
- ch-remote fails (remote error)

The additional context is a clear improvement in UX for both users and
developers. In the following example, the new behaviour is shown for
a direct invocation of Cloud Hypervisor leading to a failure. This
looks similar for ch-remote.

```
Old Style
`target/release/cloud-hypervisor --api-socket /tmp/chv2.sock --kernel /etc/bootitems/linux/kernel_minimal/stable.bzImage --cmdline console=ttyS0 --serial tty --console off --disk path=img.raw --initramfs /etc/bootitems/linux/initrd_minimal/default`

Error booting VM: VmBoot(LockingError(BlockError(LockDiskImage(AlreadyLocked)))
```

```
`target/release/cloud-hypervisor --api-socket /tmp/chv2.sock --kernel /etc/bootitems/linux/kernel_minimal/stable.bzImage --cmdline console=ttyS0 --serial tty --console off --disk path=img.raw --initramfs
/etc/bootitems/linux/initrd_minimal/default`

Error: Cloud Hypervisor exited with the following chain of errors:
  0: Error booting VM
  1: The VM could not boot
  2: Error locking disk images: Another instance likely holds a lock
  3: Cannot lock images of all block devices
  4: Failed to get Write lock for disk image: ./img.raw
  5: The file is already locked

Debug Info: VmBoot(VmBoot(LockingError(DiskLockError(LockDiskImage { error: AlreadyLocked, lock_type: Write, path: "./raw_disk.bin" })))
```

Signed-off-by: Philipp Schuster <philipp.schuster@cyberus-technology.de>
On-behalf-of: SAP philipp.schuster@sap.com
2025-06-13 19:55:54 +00:00
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