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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] qemu-kvm: virtio-net: Re-instate GSO
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To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 09/30/09 15:59, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> I'm planning on adding -hostnet and -nic arguments, which would not use
> vlans by default but rather connect the nic directly to the host side.

No new -nic argument please.  We should just finalize the qdev-ifycation 
of the nic drivers, then you'll do either

   -device e1000,vlan=<nr>

or

   -device e1000,hostnet=<name>

and be done with it.

cheers,
   Gerd