From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59713) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsStz-0002mh-EG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:43:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsStu-0007Ee-MB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:43:11 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60421) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsStu-0007EY-DJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:43:06 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:46:44 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20130108064644.GE11305@redhat.com> References: <20121218110153.GC22586@redhat.com> <50D053CC.9040203@greensocs.com> <20121218132152.GB26110@redhat.com> <87vcb8g3bs.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <20130107205950.GD10575@redhat.com> <878v841ybl.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <20130107213729.GB11305@redhat.com> <87vcb8irw7.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <20130107221541.GC11305@redhat.com> <87r4lw1ubf.fsf@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r4lw1ubf.fsf@codemonkey.ws> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring. List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Peter Maydell , e.voevodin@samsung.com, mark.burton@greensocs.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, afaerber@suse.de, KONRAD =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 04:50:44PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > "Michael S. Tsirkin" writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 03:51:04PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> "Michael S. Tsirkin" 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 > > > > >> > > >> >> > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > -- > >> >> >> > MST