Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Adds virtio_net as the default netcard for mips boston board.

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 14:24, Tommy Jin <tjin@wavecomp.com> wrote:
> For the option2, I think specify the network model in command line is
> not enough, per my understanding, we still need to create the device
> using API like pci_create && qdev_set_nic_properties && qdev_init_nofail,
> otherwise we'll get error prompts like "requested NIC (anonymous, model
> virtio) was not created (not supported by this machine?)", currently I
> just add these pieces of code in /hw/mips/boston.c, Do you call these
> pieces of code board code and what's your suggestion?

If the boston board has PCI support and it is implemented correctly
then you should be able to create a virtio network setup with
command line options like
 -netdev user,id=mynet -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=mynet

(or any other netdev backend, eg tun/tap).

I don't have a boston image/command line to test that with,
but it works for arm boards and should be the same for any
pci capable board model.

thanks
-- PMM