From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59664) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPtmH-0002aC-TA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:05:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPtmF-0002WI-II for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:05:25 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:6636) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPtmF-0002W7-B4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:05:23 -0400 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r3AC5MOR006179 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:05:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:05:19 +0800 From: Amos Kong Message-ID: <20130410120519.GA13514@t430s.nay.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [Qemu-devel] Nic devices' name are wrongly repeated List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: qemu-devel Hi Stefan, If we don't assign 'id' for nic device, device name will be $model.$idx. The $idx are always 0 if we set nic by new style. # qemu-upstream -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=h1 -netdev tap,id=h1 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=h2 -netdev tap,id=h2 ... (qemu) info network virtio-net-pci.0: index=0,type=nic,model=virtio-net-pci,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:56 \ h1: index=0,type=tap,ifname=tap0,script=/etc/qemu-ifup,downscript=/etc/qemu-ifdown virtio-net-pci.0: index=0,type=nic,model=virtio-net-pci,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:57 \ h2: index=0,type=tap,ifname=tap1,script=/etc/qemu-ifup,downscript=/etc/qemu-ifdown it's introduced by commit d33d93b2 If we set links down by 'set_link virtio-net-pci.0', the first nic will be set down. But how to set the second link down by id? -- Amos.