From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34513) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKExA-0002I2-CL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:29:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKEx7-00048v-DE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:29:16 -0400 Received: from [2a01:4f8:140:73a5::3] (port=60818 helo=stuff.messir.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKEx7-00048Z-6a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:29:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:28:58 +0100 From: Alexandre Kandalintsev Message-ID: <20130325222858.7d1a596b@messir.net> In-Reply-To: <20130325090300.GD1845@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> References: <20130321190509.6e1d73e5@messir.net> <20130325090300.GD1845@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ifname=xxx for -netdev bridge List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org > By default, custom names should not be allowed. Perhaps the > qemu-bridge-helper configuration file needs an option to specify a > glob pattern, e.g. vm*. > > This way the host system administrator can restrict network interface > names while still allowing humand-friendly names. Ok, lets go this way. We will define patterns in bridge.conf like ~~~ allowifname vm* ~~~ -- Alexandre Kandalintsev