On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 06:10:15PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: Hi, > On 6 January 2016 at 14:47, Ashok Kumar <ash...@broadcom.com> wrote: > > virtio model is used for default case. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ashok Kumar <ash...@broadcom.com> > > Could you explain why you think this needs to be done? Yes, for -net. Honestly, I didn't know this is obsolete and the only syntax I knew for networking.
> Virtio networking works OK for me... I tried the new syntax now and it is working fine. > > I guess from the patch that this is adding support for > the legacy '-net' way of configuring networking, but do > we need that if we never supported it in the first place? > (If virt is the only PCI machine which doesn't support > -net syntax that would probably be a strong argument for > supporting it.) Fine with me. But there are some documentation for e.g [1] which says "-net" is still supported. [1] http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Networking#Compatibility Thanks, Ashok > > thanks > -- PMM >
