On 05/26/2015 04:29 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> writes: [...] >> We thought the QEMU "vlan" concept would be dropped completely in the >> future, so it was never added to -netdev. No patches to do that have >> been posted over the years, so I think it was more of a conceptual goal >> than a concrete requirement. > > Well, patches to do that first need to replace the VLAN-only dump > feature. > > To fully deprecate -net, we also have to replace -net nic for > configuring onboard NICs. > > Prior discussion: > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-02/msg03743.html > > We haven't really tried either.
Ok, assuming that my "Network traffic dumping for -netdev devices" patch series is going to solve the dumping-for-netdev problem, how do we tackle the remaining problems that we have to solve before we can deprecate -net? Does anybody have a survey of the (onboard) NICs that can only be configured with -net but not with -device? Could they nowadays be changed to work with -device, too, or are there still major obstacles to solve first? Thomas
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