[libvirt] [PATCH 0/6] qemu: command: Replace vlan= with netdev=

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Wed Jun 20 13:34:27 UTC 2018


On 06/19/2018 06:40 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Most VMs libvirt knows how to launch will have qemu network config like:
> 
>   -netdev $NETDEV_OPTS,id=netdev1 -device e1000,id=netdev1
> 
> However for machine types with built-in platform network devices, we
> currently do:
> 
>   -net nic,model=e1000,vlan=1 -net $NETDEV_OPTS,vlan=1
> 
> However for the platform case, all qemu versions we support can do:
> 
>   -netdev $NETDEV_OPTS,id=netdev1 -net nic,model=e1000,netdev=netdev1
> 
> Which simplifies our code, and is more future proof as qemu has
> deprecated the vlan= option. This series switches to the netdev=
> method, and performs some cleanups in related code.
> 
> Thanks,
> Cole
> 
> Cole Robinson (6):
>   qemu: command: Make qemuBuildNicStr static
>   qemu: command: Rename BuildNicStr to BuildLegacyNicStr
>   qemu: command: remove unused LegacyNicStr arg 'prefix'
>   qemu: command: replace vlan= with netdev= for legacy nic
>   qemu: Remove vlan function arguments
>   qemu: command: vhost: cleanup error reporting
> 
>  src/qemu/qemu_command.c                       | 99 ++++++-------------
>  src/qemu/qemu_command.h                       |  8 --
>  src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c                       |  3 +-
>  .../arm-vexpressa9-basic.args                 |  4 +-
>  4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
> 

ACK series.

Michal




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