From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
e.voevodin@samsung.com, mark.burton@greensocs.com,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com,
cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, afaerber@suse.de,
"KONRAD Frédéric" <fred.konrad@greensocs.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring.
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:50:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4lw1ubf.fsf@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130107221541.GC11305@redhat.com>
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 03:51:04PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>> > I guess you are saying we want to add bus= option to -net nic?
>>
>> I absolutely wouldn't object to that.
>>
>> But I can think of better solutions too. Like:
>>
>> -virtio-net ...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anthony Liguori
>
> for most people I think virtio is an implementation detail really. no?
So what is it that people really want to do?
Is tap an implementation detail? Should we just do -nics 4 and call it
a day? I'm not being facetious, I really think we should approach it
like this.
We don't need to design our internal interfaces/abstractions such that
they map 1-1 with command line arguments meant for normal users.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
>> >
>> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > --
>> >> >> > MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-07 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-07 13:32 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring fred.konrad
2012-12-07 13:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 1/6] qdev : add a maximum device allowed field for the bus fred.konrad
2012-12-07 13:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 2/6] virtio-bus : Introduce virtio-bus fred.konrad
2012-12-07 13:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 3/6] virtio-pci-bus : Introduce virtio-pci-bus fred.konrad
2012-12-07 13:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 4/6] virtio-pci : Refactor virtio-pci device fred.konrad
2012-12-07 13:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 5/6] virtio-device : Refactor virtio-device fred.konrad
2012-12-07 13:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 6/6] virtio-blk : Add the virtio-blk device fred.konrad
2012-12-07 14:53 ` Peter Maydell
2012-12-17 15:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-17 17:13 ` KONRAD Frédéric
2012-12-17 20:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-18 10:33 ` Peter Maydell
2012-12-18 11:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-18 11:26 ` Peter Maydell
2012-12-18 11:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-12-18 12:06 ` Peter Maydell
2012-12-18 13:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-18 14:00 ` Peter Maydell
2012-12-18 14:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-12-18 14:56 ` Peter Maydell
2012-12-18 14:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-12-18 15:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-18 15:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-18 14:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-18 11:30 ` KONRAD Frédéric
2012-12-18 13:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 20:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-01-07 20:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 21:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-01-07 21:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 21:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-01-07 22:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 22:50 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2013-01-08 6:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 22:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 19:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 20:02 ` Peter Maydell
2013-01-07 20:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-07 21:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-01-07 20:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-01-08 9:56 ` KONRAD Frédéric
2013-01-08 14:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-08 14:27 ` KONRAD Frédéric
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