From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>,
"eric.auger@st.com" <eric.auger@st.com>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Ashok Kumar <ashoks@broadcom.com>,
Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 5/5] hw/arm/virt: Support legacy -nic command line syntax
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:32:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1453134741.32741.85.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-__iZNVY2PUhouuraAQfu4obu5oqMbGABcNXiz1zMtyg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 16:00 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 18 January 2016 at 15:55, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.
> com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 15:54 +0100, Eric Auger wrote:
> > > On 01/18/2016 03:14 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > > ...but presumably the x86 folks have been here before us
> > > > and know how this should work :-)
> >
> > No, we haven't. vfio-pci devices are opaque on x86, we don't
> > know or care that they're NICs or HBAs or GPUs or whatever.
> > If you don't want the default NIC, turn it off with -net none.
> > Don't want graphics, -nographics. Default QEMU devices may be
> > useful for the commandline, but do they really matter in
> > practical use?
>
> "User is expected to use -net none" is a fine answer to "how
> this should work"...
>
> (I was thrown off track because http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Ne
> tworking
> doesn't document '-net none', and also -net is the legacy
> syntax -- is there a -netdev equivalent?)
My guess would be that -netdev is often used in conjunction with
-nodefaults and therefore it becomes unnecessary to explicitly disable
it. Thanks,
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-18 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-11 14:34 [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/5] target-arm queue Peter Maydell
2016-01-11 14:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 1/5] i.MX: move i.MX31 CCM object to register array Peter Maydell
2016-01-11 14:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 2/5] hw/dma/xilinx_axidma: remove dead code Peter Maydell
2016-01-11 14:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 3/5] xlnx-zynqmp: Add support for high DDR memory regions Peter Maydell
2016-01-11 14:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 5/5] hw/arm/virt: Support legacy -nic command line syntax Peter Maydell
2016-01-18 13:29 ` Eric Auger
2016-01-18 13:34 ` Peter Maydell
2016-01-18 13:57 ` Eric Auger
2016-01-18 14:14 ` Peter Maydell
2016-01-18 14:54 ` Eric Auger
2016-01-18 15:55 ` Alex Williamson
2016-01-18 15:57 ` Eric Auger
2016-01-18 16:00 ` Peter Maydell
2016-01-18 16:29 ` Markus Armbruster
2016-01-18 16:32 ` Alex Williamson [this message]
2016-01-11 16:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/5] target-arm queue Peter Maydell
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