Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 25/05/2012 15:18, Luiz Capitulino ha scritto:
>> > 
>> > Still not sure what you mean...
> I meant it's a similar case. kqemu was a special case and maintenance burden.
> We've dropped it and didn't regret. What's stopping us from doing the same
> thing with vlans?

That we have an alternative, and that -net dump is actually useful.

>> >  we removed kqemu and didn't give an
>> > alternative.  This time we are providing an alternative.
> Alternatives already exist, we don't have to provide them.

Alternatives that require you to have root privileges (anything
involving libvirt or iptables) are not really alternatives.

Paolo