Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-discuss] qemu-kvm: -netdev user: Parameter 'id' is missing

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:02 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:41 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Forwarding per discussion in qemu-discuss.
>>>> Please CC.
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Mike Lovell <mike@dev-zero.net>
>>>> Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:58 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-kvm: -netdev user: Parameter 'id' is missing
>>>> To: qemu-discuss@nongnu.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07/20/2012 04:10 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The documentation at http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking
>>>>> makes people think that 'id' parameter for -netdev user is optional,
>>>>> which doesn't appear to be true:
>>>>>
>>>>>      $ qemu-kvm -hda image.img -netdev user
>>>>>      qemu-kvm: -netdev user: Parameter 'id' is missing
>>>
>>> I have updated the wiki page.
>>
>> Even with -net nic considered obsolete (is the whole -net family
>> obsolete?), it looks like there is no complete replacement for it. For
>> example, there is no equivalent for -net nic,model=? (referenced from
>> wiki). It is also strange to read proposal to "see the qemu man page
>> for the various options that you can pass to -net nic". Unfortunately,
>> -netdev is completely undocumented in man and there is no info that
>> -net nic and -net user are obsolete there. All this stuff is
>> confusing.
>
> You are right that this is underdocumented and confusing.  Answers to
> your points:

I have restructured the wiki page.  Most of it focusses on
-netdev/-device now.  There is a separate section at the bottom on
-net.

Some distractions were removed and I hope it's slightly easier to get into.

Next I will write the -netdev man page section.

If you would like a wiki account please let me know your preferred username.

Stefan