Re: [Qemu-devel] -net interface association behavior change in current -git.

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2011-05-13 12:31, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 05/13/2011 01:39 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>  Actually, reading qemu
>>> --help it looks like I should be using hostfwd= but the documentation on
>>> that is REALLY WEIRD:
>>>
>>>   This option can not be given multiple times, but multiple rules may
>>>   be combined.
>>
>> Where did you find this? A quick grep did not reveal the location to me.
>> qemu-options.hx states it clearly:
> 
> I did a "man qemu" and searched for hostfwd, it was at the end of the
> first paragraph:
> 
>    hostfwd=[tcp|udp]:[hostaddr]:hostport-[guestaddr]:guestport
>        Redirect incoming TCP or UDP connections to the host port
>        hostport to the guest IP address guestaddr on guest port
>        guestport. If guestaddr is not specified, its value is x.x.x.15
>        (default first address given by the built-in DHCP server). By
>        specifying hostaddr, the rule can be bound to a specific host
>        interface. If no connection type is set, TCP is used. This
>        option can not be given multiple times, but multiple rules may
>        be combined.
> 
> Looks like it grabbed the xubuntu 10.04 (current LTS) man page, which is
> wrong.  The one in the qemu source is correct, but wasn't built by
> "make" or installed by "make install".  (It built when I explicitlly
> said make qemu.1 though.  Go figure.)
> 
> *shrug*  Never underestimate ubuntu's ability to subtly break qemu, this
> is the... fourth different way I've noticed them doing that?  (I dunno
> why they keep fiddling with it.  Thought installing qemu from source
> also installed the man page, which would be in the search path before
> the distro version.  My bad...)

Did they also "improve" the code accordingly? Indeed very strange.

Jan

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