Re: [Qemu-devel] vhost acceleration broken?

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 04:56:05PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Am 25.07.2013 16:52, schrieb Michael S. Tsirkin:
>> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 08:28:00AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> >> We have a pretty awful legacy command line set that comes from years of
>> >> half-baked concepts and the years when too many people just committed
>> >> random shit to the tree.
>> >>
>> >> I think we probably need to start planning for a clean break.  Maybe
>> >> that's a good target for a 2.0 version...
>> > 
>> > Assuming -netdev supports all required configurations, we should
>> > remove -net from the -help output.
>> 
>> Peter had raised the issue of -netdev not working well with boards that
>> already supply a default NIC - was there a solution yet?
>> 
>> Andreas
>
> Whoever is removing -net will have to code that up. Want to do this?

I would not rush to remove things.  If we're going to go through a
deprecation process, we should start with a proposal on what things
should be removed and go from there.

I still don't even think -netdev is the right answer here either.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have something like:

qemu -vnic tap,script=/foo/myscript

Or something vaguely understandable by a human?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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