On 14/08/2018 18:11, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 08/14/2018 06:03 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 14/08/2018 18:01, Thomas Huth wrote: >>> On 08/14/2018 05:57 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >>>> On 14/08/2018 17:43, Thomas Huth wrote: >>>>> The machines which emulate an embedded system often always create a NIC >>>>> (since it is hard-wired on the board, not optional). But since there is >>>>> no back-end on the host side with "-nodefaults", the net_check_clients() >>>>> function complains in this case. >>>> >>>> [...] is the message unnecessary even in normal operation? >>> >>> I think it is still needed, since you could also screw up your command >>> line parameters after specifying -nodefaults (e.g. "-nodefaults -net >>> nic" without giving an additional "-net user" or something similar). >> >> True. Though it cannot happen with -nic, so another possibility is to >> give it only if -net was used? > > Sorry, I don't quite get you ... this is a generic check in vl.c, how > should this code know whether the NICs have been specified with -nic or > -net?
case QEMU_OPTION_net: had_net = true; ... if (!default_net && had_net) { net_check_clients(); } :) Paolo