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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-discuss] qemu-kvm: -netdev user: Parameter
 'id' is missing
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To: anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Lovell <mike@dev-zero.net>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:41 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:
> Forwarding per discussion in qemu-discuss.
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> 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
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> 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