[libvirt] [PATCH 0/3]add usb-net support for qemu

Guannan Ren gren at redhat.com
Wed Jan 9 11:07:28 UTC 2013


On 01/09/2013 04:09 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:03:23PM -0500, Laine Stump wrote:
>> On 01/03/2013 02:13 AM, Guannan Ren wrote:
>>> The set of patches fixed some typo in network docs and codes and
>>> is trying to support usb-net qemu virtual device.
>>>
>>> The following is an example for use.
>>>
>>> Libvirt XML sample:
>>>    <devices>
>>>      <interface type='user'>
>>>        <mac address='52:54:00:32:6a:91'/>
>>>        <model type='usb-net'/>
>> Do we really want the model type to be "usb-net"? the "-net" part is
>> already implicit in the type of device, and there is no requirement that
>> it needs to exactly match the qemu commandline parameter (although I
>> suppose that's normally the case). As a matter of fact, <type
>> model='virtio'/> ends up being equivalent to "-device virtio-net-pci".
> Indeed, we should really base the name on the actual hardware
> since there can be many many different USB NICs implemented.
>
> Finding a model name in the usb.ids file is a good place to
> start
>
> Daniel

    Okay, I am going to make a v2.
    Thanks for the review




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