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From: Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [feature request] qemu-bridge-helper
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To: mario.dechenno@unina2.it, Richa Marwaha <rmarwah@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mario De Chenno <ceda@dechenno.eu>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 10/10/2012 11:05 AM, Mario De Chenno wrote:
> It could be possible to add a sort of "ifname=" option to the
> qemu-bridge-helper program, so qemu could give a recognizable name to
> the tap interface the helper creates?
> Thanks  all,
> Mairo De Chenno

I don't see why not.  If ifname is not specified then we can default to 
tap0, etc.

Richa, do you want to handle this?

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Corey Bryant