Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] better describe -net options

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 03/17/2010 11:13 AM, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>    
>>     On 03/05/2010 03:07 PM, Brian Thomason wrote:
>>
>>       The manpage reflects that multiple -net user calls may be made,
>>       but if this is done, it can cause the program to hang. Instead,
>>       multiple -net calls can be combined into one, and this patch adds
>>       that information to qemu-options.hx. Also, -net user may only
>>       be used in conjunction with -net nic.  This is already implcitly
>>       stated, but this patch makes that statement more explicit.
>>
>>     Actually, the problem is that the user created a loop.  It's actually
>>     valid to have something like:
>>     -net user -net dump,file=foo.pcap -net nic
>>     But having -net user -net user creates a loop.
>>      
> When I used -net user -net user, it didn't hang: QEMU crashed with a
> stack overflow.
>
> It crashed after a doing a successful full OS install, because
> everything was fine until the first network packet.
>
> That's not nice, even if it is user error.
>    

Well we should dedicate this case in the code and throw an error.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> -- Jamie
>