On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:41 PM, anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Forwarding per discussion in qemu-discuss. > Please CC. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mike Lovell <m...@dev-zero.net> > Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:58 PM > Subject: Re: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-kvm: -netdev user: Parameter 'id' is missing > To: qemu-disc...@nongnu.org > > > On 07/20/2012 04:10 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: >> >> The documentation at http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking >> makes people think that 'id' parameter for -netdev user is optional, >> which doesn't appear to be true: >> >> $ qemu-kvm -hda image.img -netdev user >> qemu-kvm: -netdev user: Parameter 'id' is missing
I have updated the wiki page. A -netdev needs to be paired with a NIC -device. That's why the identifier is essential, it allows you to say -netdev <type>,id=netdev0 -device <type>,netdev=netdev0. Stefan
