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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Make NIC model fallback to default when specified model is not supported
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:35:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C977122.6010107@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C974240.4070208@redhat.com>

On 09/20/2010 06:15 AM, Michal Novotny wrote:
> Well, this way I guess we should have 2, maybe 3 different approaches 
> - different for qemu itself and for upstream version Xen using the 
> older version of qemu-dm and RHEL-5 version.
>
> Therefore I think we should drop the patch for qemu (the one sent to 
> this list) and decide about the others using their own lists/discussions.

BTW, the simple way to fix this in Xen is to launch qemu-dm -net 
nic,model=?, parse the output to determine if the requested nic is 
valid, then if it's not valid, print your warning to the user and then 
select a "default" nic.

No need to implement this logic in qemu-dm itself.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Michal
>

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-20 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-20  9:47 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make NIC model fallback to default when specified model is not supported Michal Novotny
2010-09-20 10:34 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2010-09-20 10:48   ` Michal Novotny
2010-09-20 10:53     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-09-20 11:05       ` Michal Novotny
2010-09-20 11:07         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-09-20 11:15           ` Michal Novotny
2010-09-20 14:35             ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-09-20 17:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-21  7:10   ` Michal Novotny

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