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| author | Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> | 2016-09-13 17:11:54 +1000 |
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| committer | Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> | 2016-09-27 17:54:22 +0800 |
| commit | 584613eacb3840c1803e665ed7edd4ac186deced (patch) | |
| tree | 3a8612612046148dafead193f3b905c07645f6f4 /qemu-options.hx | |
| parent | fb56d323e2c9472ba4c25fc0f13f2aaddda62380 (diff) | |
tap: Allow specifying a bridge
The tap backend is already using qemu-bridge-helper to attach tap
interface to a bridge but (unlike the bridge backend) it always uses
the default bridge name - br0.
This adds a "br" property support to the tap backend.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Tested-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-options.hx')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index 987d055481..01f01dfadc 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -1598,10 +1598,11 @@ DEF("netdev", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_netdev, " configure a host TAP network backend with ID 'str'\n" #else "-netdev tap,id=str[,fd=h][,fds=x:y:...:z][,ifname=name][,script=file][,downscript=dfile]\n" - " [,helper=helper][,sndbuf=nbytes][,vnet_hdr=on|off][,vhost=on|off]\n" + " [,br=bridge][,helper=helper][,sndbuf=nbytes][,vnet_hdr=on|off][,vhost=on|off]\n" " [,vhostfd=h][,vhostfds=x:y:...:z][,vhostforce=on|off][,queues=n]\n" " [,poll-us=n]\n" " configure a host TAP network backend with ID 'str'\n" + " connected to a bridge (default=" DEFAULT_BRIDGE_INTERFACE ")\n" " use network scripts 'file' (default=" DEFAULT_NETWORK_SCRIPT ")\n" " to configure it and 'dfile' (default=" DEFAULT_NETWORK_DOWN_SCRIPT ")\n" " to deconfigure it\n" @@ -1888,8 +1889,8 @@ processed and applied to -net user. Mixing them with the new configuration syntax gives undefined results. Their use for new applications is discouraged as they will be removed from future versions. -@item -netdev tap,id=@var{id}[,fd=@var{h}][,ifname=@var{name}][,script=@var{file}][,downscript=@var{dfile}][,helper=@var{helper}] -@itemx -net tap[,vlan=@var{n}][,name=@var{name}][,fd=@var{h}][,ifname=@var{name}][,script=@var{file}][,downscript=@var{dfile}][,helper=@var{helper}] +@item -netdev tap,id=@var{id}[,fd=@var{h}][,ifname=@var{name}][,script=@var{file}][,downscript=@var{dfile}][,br=@var{bridge}][,helper=@var{helper}] +@itemx -net tap[,vlan=@var{n}][,name=@var{name}][,fd=@var{h}][,ifname=@var{name}][,script=@var{file}][,downscript=@var{dfile}][,br=@var{bridge}][,helper=@var{helper}] Connect the host TAP network interface @var{name} to VLAN @var{n}. Use the network script @var{file} to configure it and the network script @@ -1900,8 +1901,9 @@ automatically provides one. The default network configure script is to disable script execution. If running QEMU as an unprivileged user, use the network helper -@var{helper} to configure the TAP interface. The default network -helper executable is @file{/path/to/qemu-bridge-helper}. +@var{helper} to configure the TAP interface and attach it to the bridge. +The default network helper executable is @file{/path/to/qemu-bridge-helper} +and the default bridge device is @file{br0}. @option{fd}=@var{h} can be used to specify the handle of an already opened host TAP interface. |