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Subject: [Qemu-devel] net devices
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I'm looking through the qemu sources and I'm trying to understand how 
net devices work.
What is considered a net_client inside qemu sources?
I'm asking about this because I came upon two functions which (because 
of their name) sound like
they should be doing the same thing. The functions' name are:
1. qemu_new_nic()
2. qemu_new_net_client()
More specifically I'm looking through the virtio-net vhost-net sources.

Cata