Re: [Qemu-devel] vhost acceleration broken?

[Peter Maydell]

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