On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Amit Shah <amit.s...@redhat.com> wrote: > Commit 50e32ea8f31035877decc10f1075aa0e619e09cb changed the behaviour > for the return type of net_client_init() when a nic type with no init > method was specified. 'none' is one such nic type. Instead of returning > 0, which gets interpreted as an index into the nd_table[] array, we > switched to returning -1, which signifies an error as well. > > That broke VM start with '-net none'. Testing was only done with the > monitor command 'pci_add', which doesn't fail.
I stumbled across the broken -net none in qemu.git and qemu-kvm.git. It does a silent exit(1) on startup. It would be nice to merge this patch. Stefan
