On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > The socket backend does not support the listen= option with -netdev. The > problem is how the socket NetClientState lifecycle is implemented: the socket > backend waits for an incoming client connection before creating a > NetClientState. The guest -device wants a peer= on startup, so QEMU fails > with > an error about the non-existent peer. > > This series makes -netdev socket,listen= work by creating the NetClientState > right away. This allows -device peer= to find the socket backend. > > This code was written by Zhi Yong Wu <wu...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>. I have only > cleaned up and tested it. The following work: > * -net socket,listen=:1234 -net nic,model=virtio > * -netdev socket,listen=:1234,id=netdev0 -device > virtio-net-pci,netdev=netdev0 > > Zhi Yong Wu (2): > net: fix the coding style > net: add the support for -netdev socket, listen > > net/socket.c | 82 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- > 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
Merged into the net tree: https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/tree/net Stefan
