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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	e.voevodin@samsung.com, mark.burton@greensocs.com,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com,
	cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, afaerber@suse.de,
	"KONRAD Frédéric" <fred.konrad@greensocs.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring.
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:50:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4lw1ubf.fsf@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130107221541.GC11305@redhat.com>

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 03:51:04PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > I guess you are saying we want to add bus= option to -net nic?
>> 
>> I absolutely wouldn't object to that.
>> 
>> But I can think of better solutions too.  Like:
>> 
>>     -virtio-net ...
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Anthony Liguori
>
> for most people I think virtio is an implementation detail really. no?

So what is it that people really want to do?

Is tap an implementation detail?  Should we just do -nics 4 and call it
a day?  I'm not being facetious, I really think we should approach it
like this.

We don't need to design our internal interfaces/abstractions such that
they map 1-1 with command line arguments meant for normal users.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
>> >
>> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > -- 
>> >> >> > MST

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-07 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-07 13:32 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring fred.konrad
2012-12-07 13:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 1/6] qdev : add a maximum device allowed field for the bus fred.konrad
2012-12-07 13:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 2/6] virtio-bus : Introduce virtio-bus fred.konrad
2012-12-07 13:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 3/6] virtio-pci-bus : Introduce virtio-pci-bus fred.konrad
2012-12-07 13:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 4/6] virtio-pci : Refactor virtio-pci device fred.konrad
2012-12-07 13:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 5/6] virtio-device : Refactor virtio-device fred.konrad
2012-12-07 13:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 6/6] virtio-blk : Add the virtio-blk device fred.konrad
2012-12-07 14:53   ` Peter Maydell
2012-12-17 15:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-17 17:13   ` KONRAD Frédéric
2012-12-17 20:46     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-18 10:33   ` Peter Maydell
2012-12-18 11:01     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-18 11:26       ` Peter Maydell
2012-12-18 11:50         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-12-18 12:06           ` Peter Maydell
2012-12-18 13:10             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-18 14:00               ` Peter Maydell
2012-12-18 14:36                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-12-18 14:56                   ` Peter Maydell
2012-12-18 14:59                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-12-18 15:42                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-18 15:14                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-18 14:51                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-18 11:30       ` KONRAD Frédéric
2012-12-18 13:21         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 20:12           ` Anthony Liguori
2013-01-07 20:59             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 21:24               ` Anthony Liguori
2013-01-07 21:37                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 21:51                   ` Anthony Liguori
2013-01-07 22:15                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 22:50                       ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2013-01-08  6:46                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 22:16                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 19:58         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 20:02           ` Peter Maydell
2013-01-07 20:49             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 21:32               ` Anthony Liguori
2013-01-07 20:14           ` Anthony Liguori
2013-01-08  9:56           ` KONRAD Frédéric
2013-01-08 14:02             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-08 14:27               ` KONRAD Frédéric

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