On 26/05/2015 15:07, Thomas Huth wrote: > Certainly no objections from my side to keep this "vlan" concept in > QEMU, but thinking about this option again, I'd rather call it "hub=xx" > for the -netdev option instead of "vlan=xx", since this better matches > the "-netdev hubport" naming and it IMHO also describes the > functionality in a better way. > (of course I also need to add proper updates to the documentation files > in my patch in that way)
I agree. It makes sense, because vlans have other uses besides dump (e.g. connecting VMs via the socket or l2tpv3 backends, where VMs have multiple NICs). Paolo