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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/4] Add support for net bridge
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To: Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: rmarwah@linux.vnet.ibm.com, aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 11/01/2011 02:36 AM, Corey Bryant wrote:
> The default bridge that we attach to is br0.  The thinking is that a distro
> could preconfigure such an interface to allow out-of-the-box bridged networking.
>
> Alternatively, if a user wants to use a different bridge, they can say:
>
>    qemu linux.img -net bridge,br=qemubr0 -net nic,model=virtio
>
> or:
>
>    qemu linux.img -net tap,helper=/usr/local/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper,br=qemubr0
>                   -net nic,model=virtio
>
With this series of patches,  I can also use "bridge" with the option 
"-netdev". So do you think we need update the doc for 'netdev' too?
qemu-system-x86_64 ../rhel61.img --enable-kvm -m 1024 -netdev 
bridge,br=virbr0,helper=/usr/local/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper,id=port1 
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=port1,id=nic1

Forgot to point out this in last post. Sorry for that.