Re: [PULL REQUEST] merge latest upstream qemu networking bits

Mark McLoughlin
2009-11-02T11:59:16Z

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:36 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/28/2009 04:19 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:

> > The most notable thing here is that all our networking changes are now
> > upstream - i.e. there are no longer qemu-kvm specific changes to
> > net.[ch], net-queue.[ch], savevm.c and hw/virtio-net.c
> >
> > This has resulted in one intentional regression - in order to use GSO,
> > you must now use '-netdev tap' rather than '-net tap'. We could continue
> > to support the latter, but it's never going upstream so we may as well
> > drop it now.
> >
> > Another regression is that virtio-net loses it's MAC address, but I've
> > just sent a fix for that to qemu-devel.
> >
>
> What does this mean? It loses the ability to set it?

Yep:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=3cbe04c44

Cheers,
Mark.