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authorThomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>2018-02-21 11:18:36 +0100
committerJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>2018-03-05 10:30:16 +0800
commit78cd6f7bf6b196a96388a37e730706cf0c497fda (patch)
tree63e7f18c6e600323ac0689ddc68a3804e5b215e4 /include
parent7cc28cb061040cb089d29de2d9a73f404b94bc66 (diff)
downloadqemu-78cd6f7bf6b196a96388a37e730706cf0c497fda.tar.gz
net: Add a new convenience option "--nic" to configure default/on-board NICs
The legacy "-net" option can be quite confusing for the users since most people do not expect to get a "vlan" hub between their emulated guest hardware and the host backend. But so far, we are also not able to get rid of "-net" completely, since it is the only way to configure on-board NICs that can not be instantiated via "-device" yet. It's also a little bit shorter to type "-net nic -net tap" instead of "-device xyz,netdev=n1 -netdev tap,id=n1". So what we need is a new convenience option that is shorter to type than the full -device + -netdev stuff, and which can be used to configure the on-board NICs that can not be handled via -device yet. Thus this patch now provides such a new option "--nic": It adds an entry in the nd_table to configure a on-board / default NIC, creates a host backend and connects the two directly, without a confusing "vlan" hub inbetween. Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--include/sysemu/sysemu.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/sysemu/sysemu.h b/include/sysemu/sysemu.h
index 77bb3da582..66f07616d5 100644
--- a/include/sysemu/sysemu.h
+++ b/include/sysemu/sysemu.h
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ extern QemuOptsList bdrv_runtime_opts;
extern QemuOptsList qemu_chardev_opts;
extern QemuOptsList qemu_device_opts;
extern QemuOptsList qemu_netdev_opts;
+extern QemuOptsList qemu_nic_opts;
extern QemuOptsList qemu_net_opts;
extern QemuOptsList qemu_global_opts;
extern QemuOptsList qemu_mon_opts;