From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1kki-0007BG-Cz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:41:04 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J1kkf-0007B4-R8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:41:04 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J1kkf-0007B1-P0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:41:01 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J1kkf-0006KM-8v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:41:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:40:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Capture network traffic to a tcpdump file - updated In-Reply-To: <475D5CF2.1020202@codemonkey.ws> Message-ID: References: <380128.17287.qm@web57002.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <475D5CF2.1020202@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi, On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Balazs Attila-Mihaly (Cd-MaN) wrote: > > Here goes v0.2 for my patch :-) > > Changes > > - now the option is a separate command line switch: > > -net capture,vlan=2,file=test.pcap > > > > Is it really necessary/useful to specify this on the command line since > it can be controlled from the monitor? As was said in another mail, if you want to guarantee that _every_ packet is logged, the command line is the most convenient. Besides, if you get your monitor support, why do you care about command line support? Ciao, Dscho