Re: [Qemu-devel] vhost acceleration broken?

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:43:44AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 26 July 2013 10:25, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:53:06PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 03:12:31PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> > On 25 July 2013 03:08, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > > We really ought to strongly deprecate -net because it's misleading.
> >> >
> >> > ...we still need to figure out how -netdev is supposed to
> >> > work for embedded (created-by-default) network devices first.
> 
> >> I guess it could work just like -net does: assume a default netdev name?
> 
> (for clarity, rather than as an argument against this idea)
> This isn't how -net works : "-net nic,options" sets up an
> entry in the nd_table[], and the board will then pick up those
> entries based on some ad-hoc combination of order and whether
> a model= was specified for that nic.
> 
> > Sounds like a simple way to solve it, as long as machines use the
> > standard name(s) for build-in NICs.
> 
> How would this work for (for example) specifying a macaddr
> for the built-in NIC? At the moment you can do that with
> -net nic,macaddr=<whatever>.
> 
> -- PMM

ATM you can use -global for that.

We generally need a way to specify properties for
built-in devices by path.

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MST