Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/4] Add support for net bridge

[Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 11/02/2011 11:10 PM, Mark Wu wrote:
> On 11/01/2011 02:36 AM, Corey Bryant wrote:
>> The default bridge that we attach to is br0. The thinking is that a
>> distro
>> could preconfigure such an interface to allow out-of-the-box bridged
>> networking.
>>
>> Alternatively, if a user wants to use a different bridge, they can say:
>>
>> qemu linux.img -net bridge,br=qemubr0 -net nic,model=virtio
>>
>> or:
>>
>> qemu linux.img -net
>> tap,helper=/usr/local/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper,br=qemubr0
>> -net nic,model=virtio
>>
> With this series of patches, I can also use "bridge" with the option
> "-netdev". So do you think we need update the doc for 'netdev' too?
> qemu-system-x86_64 ../rhel61.img --enable-kvm -m 1024 -netdev
> bridge,br=virbr0,helper=/usr/local/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper,id=port1
> -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=port1,id=nic1
>
> Forgot to point out this in last post. Sorry for that.
>

Yes, I agree.  I'll do that in version 5 of the patch series.  Thanks 
for pointing that out.

Regards,
Corey