Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring.

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 04:50:44PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> "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?

With virtio?  They want to install a driver and have networking go
faster.

> 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.

How would you make it work well?

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

Of course.


> Regards,
> 
> Anthony Liguori
> 
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