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From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] qemu-kvm: virtio-net: Re-instate
 GSO code removed upstream
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:59:48 +0100
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On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 21:15 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 09/30/09 15:59, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > I'm planning on adding -hostnet and -nic arguments, which would not use
> > vlans by default but rather connect the nic directly to the host side.
> 
> No new -nic argument please.  We should just finalize the qdev-ifycation 
> of the nic drivers, then you'll do either
> 
>    -device e1000,vlan=<nr>
> 
> or
> 
>    -device e1000,hostnet=<name>
> 
> and be done with it.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Cheers,
Mark.