Documentation describing -rtc option updated to better match current
implementation and highlight some important specifics.
Signed-off-by: Artem Pisarenko <artem.k.pisarenko@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <1b245c6c0803d4bf11dcbf9eb32f34af8c2bd0b4.1539846575.git.artem.k.pisarenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Fixing cache-clean-interval documentation following the recent change to
a default of 600 seconds on supported plarforms (only Linux currently).
Signed-off-by: Leonid Bloch <lbloch@janustech.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The default cache-clean-interval is set to 10 minutes, in order to lower
the overhead of the qcow2 caches (before the default was 0, i.e.
disabled).
* For non-Linux platforms the default is kept at 0, because
cache-clean-interval is not supported there yet.
Signed-off-by: Leonid Bloch <lbloch@janustech.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The upper limit on the L2 cache size is increased from 1 MB to 32 MB
on Linux platforms, and to 8 MB on other platforms (this difference is
caused by the ability to set intervals for cache cleaning on Linux
platforms only).
This is done in order to allow default full coverage with the L2 cache
for images of up to 256 GB in size (was 8 GB). Note, that only the
needed amount to cover the full image is allocated. The value which is
changed here is just the upper limit on the L2 cache size, beyond which
it will not grow, even if the size of the image will require it to.
Signed-off-by: Leonid Bloch <lbloch@janustech.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Sufficient L2 cache can noticeably improve the performance when using
large images with frequent I/O.
Previously, unless 'cache-size' was specified and was large enough, the
L2 cache was set to a certain size without taking the virtual image size
into account.
Now, the L2 cache assignment is aware of the virtual size of the image,
and will cover the entire image, unless the cache size needed for that is
larger than a certain maximum. This maximum is set to 1 MB by default
(enough to cover an 8 GB image with the default cluster size) but can
be increased or decreased using the 'l2-cache-size' option. This option
was previously documented as the *maximum* L2 cache size, and this patch
makes it behave as such, instead of as a constant size. Also, the
existing option 'cache-size' can limit the sum of both L2 and refcount
caches, as previously.
Signed-off-by: Leonid Bloch <lbloch@janustech.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Leonid Bloch <lbloch@janustech.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
These options likely do not work as expected as soon as the user
tries to use more than one network interface at once. The parameters
have been marked as deprecated since QEMU v2.6, so users had plenty
of time to move their scripts to the new syntax. Time to remove the
old parameters now.
Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Deprecated since two releases, nobody complained, thus it's time to
remove them now.
Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
It's the same as -no-user-config and marked as deprecated since three
releases already. Time to remove it now.
Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
The "-balloon" option has been replaced by "-device virtio-balloon".
It's been marked as deprecated since two releases, and nobody
complained, so let's remove it now.
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
The 'tls-creds' option accepts the name of a TLS credentials
object. This replaced the usage of 'tls', 'x509' and 'x509verify'
options in 2.5.0. These deprecated options were grandfathered in
when the deprecation policy was introduded in 2.10.0, so can now
finally be removed.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180725092751.21767-3-berrange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
This includes nvdimm persistence fixes queued before the release.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream' into staging
pc: fixes
This includes nvdimm persistence fixes queued before the release.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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* remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream:
migration/ram: ensure write persistence on loading all data to PMEM.
migration/ram: Add check and info message to nvdimm post copy.
mem/nvdimm: ensure write persistence to PMEM in label emulation
hostmem-file: add the 'pmem' option
configure: add libpmem support
memory, exec: switch file ram allocation functions to 'flags' parameters
memory, exec: Expose all memory block related flags.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
This option has been deprecated for two releases; remove it.
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
This reinstates commit b008326744,
which was temporarily reverted for the 3.0 release so that libvirt gets
some extra time to update their command lines.
The -drive option serial was deprecated in QEMU 2.10. It's time to
remove it.
Tests need to be updated to set the serial number with -global instead
of using the -drive option.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
This reinstates commit eae3bd1eb7,
which was temporarily reverted for the 3.0 release so that libvirt gets
some extra time to update their command lines.
The -drive option addr was deprecated in QEMU 2.10. It's time to remove
it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
This reinstates commit a7aff6dd10,
which was temporarily reverted for the 3.0 release so that libvirt gets
some extra time to update their command lines.
The -drive options cyls, heads, secs and trans were deprecated in
QEMU 2.10. It's time to remove them.
hd-geo-test tested both the old version with geometry options in -drive
and the new one with -device. Therefore the code using -drive doesn't
have to be replaced there, we just need to remove the -drive test cases.
This in turn allows some simplification of the code.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
When QEMU emulates vNVDIMM labels and migrates vNVDIMM devices, it
needs to know whether the backend storage is a real persistent memory,
in order to decide whether special operations should be performed to
ensure the data persistence.
This boolean option 'pmem' allows users to specify whether the backend
storage of memory-backend-file is a real persistent memory. If
'pmem=on', QEMU will set the flag RAM_PMEM in the RAM block of the
corresponding memory region. If 'pmem' is set while lack of libpmem
support, a error is generated.
Signed-off-by: Junyan He <junyan.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
QEMU options have a single dash (but also work as double dash for
convenience and compatibility). Most options are listed with single
dash in command line help but some were listed with two dashes.
Normalize these to have the same format as the others.
Left --preconfig as that is mentioned as double dash everywhere so I
assume that is the preferred form for that.
Signed-off-by: BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180716193312.A5BA17456B9@zero.eik.bme.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Committing to the current --preconfig / exit-preconfig interface
before it has seen any use is premature. Mark both as experimental,
the former in documentation, the latter by renaming it to
x-exit-preconfig.
See the previous commit for more detailed rationale.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180705091402.26244-3-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
[Straightforward conflict with commit 514337c142 resolved]
This reverts commit a7aff6dd10.
Hold off removing this for one more QEMU release (current libvirt
release still uses it.)
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This reverts commit eae3bd1eb7.
Reverted to avoid conflicts for geometry options revert.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This reverts commit b008326744.
Hold off removing this for one more QEMU release (current libvirt
release still uses it.)
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Pre-Shared Keys (PSK) is a simpler mechanism for enabling TLS
connections than using certificates. It requires only a simple secret
key:
$ mkdir -m 0700 /tmp/keys
$ psktool -u rjones -p /tmp/keys/keys.psk
$ cat /tmp/keys/keys.psk
rjones:d543770c15ad93d76443fb56f501a31969235f47e999720ae8d2336f6a13fcbc
The key can be secretly shared between clients and servers. Clients
must specify the directory containing the "keys.psk" file and a
username (defaults to "qemu"). Servers must specify only the
directory.
Example NBD client:
$ qemu-img info \
--object tls-creds-psk,id=tls0,dir=/tmp/keys,username=rjones,endpoint=client \
--image-opts \
file.driver=nbd,file.host=localhost,file.port=10809,file.tls-creds=tls0,file.export=/
Example NBD server using qemu-nbd:
$ qemu-nbd -t -x / \
--object tls-creds-psk,id=tls0,endpoint=server,dir=/tmp/keys \
--tls-creds tls0 \
image.qcow2
Example NBD server using nbdkit:
$ nbdkit -n -e / -fv \
--tls=on --tls-psk=/tmp/keys/keys.psk \
file file=disk.img
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
With this flag, kvm allows guest to control host CPU power state. This
increases latency for other processes using same host CPU in an
unpredictable way, but if decreases idle entry/exit times for the
running VCPU, so to use it QEMU needs a hint about whether host CPU is
overcommitted, hence the flag name.
Follow-up patches will expose this capability to guest
(using mwait leaf).
Based on a patch by Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> .
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180622192148.178309-2-mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
We currently have got three ways of turning on the HAX accelerator:
"-machine accel=hax", "-accel hax" and "-enable-hax". That's really
confusing and overloaded. Since "-accel" is our preferred way to enable
an accelerator nowadays, and "-accel hax" is even less to type than
"-enable-hax", let's deprecate the "-enable-hax" option now.
Note: While "-enable-kvm" is available since a long time and can hardly be
removed since it is used in a lot of upper layer tools and scripts, the
"-enable-hax" option is still rather new and not very widespread yet, so
I think that it should be OK if we remove this in a couple of releases again
(we'll see whether someone complains after seeing the deprecation message -
then we could still reconsider to keep it if there a well-founded reasons).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1529950933-28347-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The newline was removed by commit c97d6d2c, and broke -help output:
Before this patch:
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -help | grep smp
thread=single|multi (enable multi-threaded TCG)-smp [...]
After this patch:
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -help | grep smp
-smp [cpus=]n[,maxcpus=cpus][,cores=cores][,threads=threads][,sockets=sockets]
Fixes: c97d6d2cdf
Cc: Sergio Andres Gomez Del Real <sergio.g.delreal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180611195607.3015-1-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The -drive option serial was deprecated in QEMU 2.10. It's time to
remove it.
Tests need to be updated to set the serial number with -global instead
of using the -drive option.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
The -drive option addr was deprecated in QEMU 2.10. It's time to remove
it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
The -drive options cyls, heads, secs and trans were deprecated in
QEMU 2.10. It's time to remove them.
hd-geo-test tested both the old version with geometry options in -drive
and the new one with -device. Therefore the code using -drive doesn't
have to be replaced there, we just need to remove the -drive test cases.
This in turn allows some simplification of the code.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
This patch will allow the user to include the domainname option in
replies from the built-in DHCP server.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung@profitbricks.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
This option allows pausing QEMU in the new RUN_STATE_PRECONFIG state,
allowing the configuration of QEMU from QMP before the machine jumps
into board initialization code of machine_run_board_init()
The intent is to allow management to query machine state and additionally
configure it using previous query results within one QEMU instance
(i.e. eliminate the need to start QEMU twice, 1st to query board specific
parameters and 2nd for actual VM start using query results for
additional parameters).
The new option complements -S option and could be used with or without
it. The difference is that -S pauses QEMU when the machine is completely
initialized with all devices wired up and ready to execute guest code
(QEMU needs only to unpause VCPUs to let guest execute its code),
while the "preconfig" option pauses QEMU early before board specific init
callback (machine_run_board_init) is executed and allows the configuration
of machine parameters which will be used by board init code.
When early introspection/configuration is done, command 'exit-preconfig'
should be used to exit RUN_STATE_PRECONFIG and transition to the next
requested state (i.e. if -S is used then QEMU will pause the second
time when board/device initialization is completed or start guest
execution if -S isn't provided on CLI)
PS:
Initially 'preconfig' is planned to be used for configuring numa
topology depending on board specified possible cpus layout.
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1526059483-42847-1-git-send-email-imammedo@redhat.com>
[ehabkost: Changed "since 2.13" to "since 3.0"]
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/jasowang/tags/net-pull-request' into staging
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* remotes/jasowang/tags/net-pull-request:
net: Get rid of 'vlan' terminology and use 'hub' instead in the doc files
net: Get rid of 'vlan' terminology and use 'hub' instead in the source files
net: Remove the deprecated "vlan" parameter
net: Fix memory leak in net_param_nic()
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
It's been marked as deprecated since QEMU v2.9.0, so that should have
been enough time for everybody to either just drop unnecessary "vlan=0"
parameters, to switch to the modern -device + -netdev syntax for connecting
guest NICs with host network backends, or to switch to the "hubport" netdev
in case hubs are really wanted instead.
Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/658904
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
We've never documented this option in our qemu-doc, so apart from the users
that already used the old qemu-kvm fork before, most users should not be
aware of this option at all. It's been marked as deprecated in the source
code for a long time already, and officially marked as deprecated in the
documentation since QEMU v2.10, so it should be fine to remove this now.
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1525453270-23074-5-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Deprecated since the beginning when it was added for compatibility with
the ancient qemu-kvm fork of QEMU, and it even printed out the deprecation
warning since right from the start (i.e. QEMU v1.3.0), so it's really time
to remove this now.
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1525453270-23074-4-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The -tdf options has been removed with d07aa197c5,
but apparently I forgot to remove the corresponding two lines from
qemu-options.hx, so this option is still "available" and just silently
ignored. Kill it now for good.
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1525453270-23074-2-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The qemu-doc already states that this option is only maintained for
backward compatibility and "-device virtconsole" should be used
instead. So let's take the next step and mark this option officially
as deprecated.
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1525446790-16139-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This allows the caller to specify a uid and gid to use, even if there
is no corresponding password entry. This will be useful in certain
Xen configurations.
We don't support just -runas <uid> because: (i) deprivileging without
calling setgroups would be ineffective (ii) given only a uid we don't
know what gid we ought to use (since uids may eppear in multiple
passwd file entries with different gids).
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
CC: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
CC: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
This was added in 13f1243, but is missing from qemu-options.hx
Signed-off-by: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
"-net" is clearly a legacy option. Yet we still use it in almost all
examples in the qemu documentation, and many other spots in the network
chapter. We should make it less prominent that users are not lured into
using it so often anymore. So instead of starting the network chapter with
"-net nic" and documenting "-net <backend>" below "-netdev <backend>"
everywhere, all the "-net" related documentation is now moved to the end
of the chapter. The new "-nic" option is moved to the beginning of the
chapter instead, with a new example that should demonstrate how "-nic"
can be used to shortcut "-device" with "-netdev". The examples in this
chapter are changed to use the "-device" and "-netdev" options or
"-nic" instead of "-net nic -net <backend>".
While we're at it, also remove a legacy remark about very old Linux
distributions. Also remove the "[...]" from the examples in this chapter
since we are not using this ellipsis in any other examples in our docu-
mentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
We have a clear replacement, so let's deprecate it.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Message-Id: <20180224154033.29559-8-mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Add a new memory encryption object 'sev-guest'. The object will be used
to create encrypted VMs on AMD EPYC CPU. The object provides the properties
to pass guest owner's public Diffie-hellman key, guest policy and session
information required to create the memory encryption context within the
SEV firmware.
e.g to launch SEV guest
# $QEMU \
-object sev-guest,id=sev0 \
-machine ....,memory-encryption=sev0
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
When CPU supports memory encryption feature, the property can be used to
specify the encryption object to use when launching an encrypted guest.
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
There are two issues with the documentation of the --balloon parameter:
First, "--balloon none" is simply doing nothing. Even if a machine had a
balloon device by default, this option is not disabling anything, it is
simply ignored. Thus let's simply drop this option from the documentation
to avoid to confuse the users (but keep the code in vl.c for backward
compatibility).
Second, the documentation claims that "--balloon virtio" is the default
mode, but this is not true anymore since commit 382f074371.
Since that commit, the option also has no real use case anymore, since
you can simply use "--device virtio-balloon" nowadays instead. Thus to
simplify our complex parameter zoo a little bit, let's deprecate the
the parameter now and tell the user to use "--device virtio-balloon"
instead.
Fixes: 382f074371
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1519796303-13257-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The legacy "-net" option can be quite confusing for the users since most
people do not expect to get a "vlan" hub between their emulated guest
hardware and the host backend. But so far, we are also not able to get
rid of "-net" completely, since it is the only way to configure on-board
NICs that can not be instantiated via "-device" yet. It's also a little
bit shorter to type "-net nic -net tap" instead of "-device xyz,netdev=n1
-netdev tap,id=n1".
So what we need is a new convenience option that is shorter to type than
the full -device + -netdev stuff, and which can be used to configure the
on-board NICs that can not be handled via -device yet. Thus this patch now
provides such a new option "--nic": It adds an entry in the nd_table to
configure a on-board / default NIC, creates a host backend and connects
the two directly, without a confusing "vlan" hub inbetween.
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
