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| author | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2018-02-21 11:18:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> | 2018-03-05 10:30:16 +0800 |
| commit | 78cd6f7bf6b196a96388a37e730706cf0c497fda (patch) | |
| tree | 63e7f18c6e600323ac0689ddc68a3804e5b215e4 /hw/net/e1000.c | |
| parent | 7cc28cb061040cb089d29de2d9a73f404b94bc66 (diff) | |
net: Add a new convenience option "--nic" to configure default/on-board NICs
The legacy "-net" option can be quite confusing for the users since most
people do not expect to get a "vlan" hub between their emulated guest
hardware and the host backend. But so far, we are also not able to get
rid of "-net" completely, since it is the only way to configure on-board
NICs that can not be instantiated via "-device" yet. It's also a little
bit shorter to type "-net nic -net tap" instead of "-device xyz,netdev=n1
-netdev tap,id=n1".
So what we need is a new convenience option that is shorter to type than
the full -device + -netdev stuff, and which can be used to configure the
on-board NICs that can not be handled via -device yet. Thus this patch now
provides such a new option "--nic": It adds an entry in the nd_table to
configure a on-board / default NIC, creates a host backend and connects
the two directly, without a confusing "vlan" hub inbetween.
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
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