Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Network traffic dumping for -netdev, second try

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 05:56:16PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The "-net dump" option only works with the "-net" option. So far, it
> is not possible to dump network traffic with the "-netdev" option yet.
> This patch series now fixes this ugliness by enabling dumping for the
> "-netdev" option, too.
> 
> Unlike with my first attempt a couple of weeks ago ("net: Enable vlans
> and dump for -netdev, too"), this patch series now does not "abuse"
> the disliked internal vlan hub infrastructure anymore but introduces
> a new, clean "dumpfile=xxx" option for the -netdev parameters instead.
> 
> It's likely too late for version 2.4 for this patch series, but it
> would be great to get some review feedback for this anyway.
> 
> Thomas Huth (5):
>   net/dump: Add support for receive_iov function
>   net/dump: Move DumpState into NetClientState
>   net/dump: Rework net-dump init functions
>   net/dump: Add dump option for netdev devices
>   qemu options: Add information about dumpfile to help text
> 
>  include/net/net.h |  8 +++++
>  net/clients.h     |  5 ++++
>  net/dump.c        | 89 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  net/net.c         | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  qapi-schema.json  | 12 ++++++--
>  qemu-options.hx   | 26 +++++++++++-----
>  6 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

Overall this approach looks good, let's do it in QEMU 2.5.

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