Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Network traffic dumping for -netdev, second try

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 05:56:16PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> The "-net dump" option only works with the "-net" option. So far, it
>> is not possible to dump network traffic with the "-netdev" option yet.
>> This patch series now fixes this ugliness by enabling dumping for the
>> "-netdev" option, too.
>> 
>> Unlike with my first attempt a couple of weeks ago ("net: Enable vlans
>> and dump for -netdev, too"), this patch series now does not "abuse"
>> the disliked internal vlan hub infrastructure anymore but introduces
>> a new, clean "dumpfile=xxx" option for the -netdev parameters instead.
>> 
>> It's likely too late for version 2.4 for this patch series, but it
>> would be great to get some review feedback for this anyway.
>> 
>> Thomas Huth (5):
>>   net/dump: Add support for receive_iov function
>>   net/dump: Move DumpState into NetClientState
>>   net/dump: Rework net-dump init functions
>>   net/dump: Add dump option for netdev devices
>>   qemu options: Add information about dumpfile to help text
>> 
>>  include/net/net.h |  8 +++++
>>  net/clients.h     |  5 ++++
>>  net/dump.c        | 89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>>  net/net.c         | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  qapi-schema.json  | 12 ++++++--
>>  qemu-options.hx   | 26 +++++++++++-----
>>  6 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
>
> Overall this approach looks good, let's do it in QEMU 2.5.

Seconded.