From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qemu v2] tap: Allow specifying a bridge
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:04:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67d4a40e-420f-f9b0-a499-0ca385e93f2e@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1473750714-48290-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru>
On 13/09/2016 09:11, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> The tap backend is already using qemu-bridge-helper to attach tap
> interface to a bridge but (unlike the bridge backend) it always uses
> the default bridge name - br0.
>
> This adds a "br" property support to the tap backend.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Stupid question ahead: how does -netdev bridge compare to -netdev tap
after this patch? Is there a case left where you must use -netdev bridge?
Or can we make -netdev bridge a synonym for "-netdev
tap,helper=/default/path/to/helper"?
Thanks,
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-14 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-13 7:11 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qemu v2] tap: Allow specifying a bridge Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-09-13 14:49 ` Eric Blake
2016-09-13 15:39 ` Greg Kurz
2016-09-14 4:23 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-09-14 13:54 ` Eric Blake
2016-09-14 14:17 ` Greg Kurz
2016-09-14 15:12 ` Eric Blake
2016-09-22 7:03 ` Jason Wang
2016-09-14 21:04 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-09-19 0:33 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-09-19 11:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-22 7:05 ` Jason Wang
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