From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Lovell <mike@dev-zero.net>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-discuss] qemu-kvm: -netdev user: Parameter 'id' is missing
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:23:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSP0QXF8HFSRSGYAxO6uQPiQ3D51dRVTHu59N_K3LT7bzRmSQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPkN8xJUjrn2ZDHbhtZozJfBvF5beyO4mMz3MpjFwpe5Lg_ekA@mail.gmail.com>
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.
A -netdev needs to be paired with a NIC -device. That's why the
identifier is essential, it allows you to say -netdev
<type>,id=netdev0 -device <type>,netdev=netdev0.
Stefan
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2012-07-23 21:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-discuss] qemu-kvm: -netdev user: Parameter 'id' is missing anatoly techtonik
2012-07-24 10:23 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2012-07-24 19:02 ` anatoly techtonik
2012-07-25 15:00 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-07-25 15:53 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-07-26 8:21 ` anatoly techtonik
2012-07-26 9:25 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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