On 28.03.2018 04:59, Jason Wang wrote: > > > On 2018年03月27日 21:16, Thomas Huth wrote: >>>> # launch vde switch >>>> vde_switch -F -sock /tmp/myswitch >>>> # launch QEMU instance >>>> -qemu-system-i386 linux.img -net nic -net vde,sock=/tmp/myswitch >>>> +qemu-system-i386 linux.img -nic vde,sock=/tmp/myswitch >>> I think we should use -netdev here? >> I've had that in the original version of this patch, but Paolo suggested >> to use -nic instead since this is more "user-friendly": >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-02/msg05258.html >> >> I personally don't mind whether we use "-netdev" or "-nic" in the >> examples, as long as we finally get rid of "-net" there... > > Right. > >> Please let me >> know which way you prefer, so I can respin the patch again if necessary. >> >> Thomas >> > > But I think we should be consistent: in your patch some "-net" was > replaced by "-nic", but others were replaced by "-netdev".
These are *examples*, and I think it's good to give the users examples for both ways of specifying a network connection. I'd really like to avoid that people think that -nic is the only way of specifying such a device, since you might not be able to configure all properties of the NIC this way. On the other hand, -device + -netdev is really way more to type, so we should also not only show this kind of examples. Thus a mixture between both ways sounds like the right solution to me. But if you disagree, let me know, then I can rework the patch again to either only use -nic or only use -netdev in the examples. Thomas
