On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: >> Or something vaguely understandable by a human? > > OK. It seems to me that each net device has a host side and a guest > side, which you can mix and match. So the commandline should reflect > that explicitly: > > qemu -hostdev net,[tap|user|bridge|socket|vde],.... -guestdev > net,.... > > If you have a built-in net device on your emulated board, you've got one > implied -guestdev net. And similar principles apply to other things > like consoles and disks.
See, we have this: qemu -netdev tap,... -device virtio-net-pci,... > Now, guest and host terms may suck. But please pick one terminology and > use it *everywhere*. Documentation, code and cmdline. But *this* is the problem. Our documentation (man page, --help, qemu-doc.texi) hasn't been touched since the beginning. I get the feedback, will take a look at it for 1.7. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Thanks, > Rusty.
