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From: Pradeep Kiruvale <pradeepkiruvale@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 16:11:27 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtio-net cli parameters
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Hi Stefan,

On 28 September 2016 at 10:29, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 05:41:55PM +0200, Pradeep Kiruvale wrote:
> > I want to add couple of new cli options for the virtio-net driver and use
> > them inside the
> > virtio-net driver to throttle the packets. I did go through the code and
> > did single stepping
> > using the gdb, but still could not find the place where the virtio-net
> > parameters are getting
> > parsed and populated into the virtio-net structures.
> > Could some one please guide/suggest where to look into, in qemu code
> base?
>
> Take a look at virtio_net_properties[] in hw/net/virtio-net.c.
>

These variables/properties are static variables. What I am looking about is
how can I pass a cli option from qemu into virtio-net driver.

I am looking at these options because I would like to implement the
throttling to
virtio-net using the throttle APIs that are available in side the qemu.

Regards,
Pradeep