Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> writes: > Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> writes: >> >>> Luiz Capitulino wrote: >>>> On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:26:27 -0300 >>>> Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <miguel.fi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> These commands show the information about active backend network devices. >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <miguel.fi...@gmail.com> >>>>> --- >>>>> qemu-monitor.hx | 105 >>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>>>> 1 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >>>>> >>>>> diff --git a/qemu-monitor.hx b/qemu-monitor.hx >>>>> index 9f62b94..8fc5ed6 100644 >>>>> --- a/qemu-monitor.hx >>>>> +++ b/qemu-monitor.hx >>>>> @@ -1674,6 +1674,111 @@ show the various VLANs and the associated devices >>>>> ETEXI >>>>> >>>>> STEXI >>>>> +...@item info netdev >>>>> +show information about the current backend network devices >>>>> +ETEXI >>>>> +SQMP >>>>> +query-netdev >>>>> +------------ >>>>> + >>>>> +Each device is represented by a json-object. The returned value is a >>>>> json-array >>>>> +of all devices. >>>>> + >>>>> +Each json-object contains the following: >>>>> + >>>>> +- "id": the device's ID, must be unique (json-string) >>>> There were some talking about changing this to 'device. Jan, Markus? >>> Only for qdev. Should be a different namespace here. >> >> Huh? >> >> We need to point to the NIC here, i.e. we need a unambigous name. >> Device ID is fine, but it's optional. Canonical qdev path? > > Unless I'm still on the wrong track: 'peer' should point to the > front-end, this ID describes the back-end, and that's not a qdev thing. > Still, dumping the peer's qdev path along its (optional) ID might be > worth a thought.
One of us is probably confused, and it could well be me :) Frontend / backend is difficult for the directionally challenged, so let's use "guest NIC" and "host network device". A guest NIC's peer points to a host network device, and vice versa. query-netdev is about host network devices. Thus, peer identifes a guest NIC.
