Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> writes: > Am 01.11.2013 um 03:52 schrieb Alexey Kardashevskiy <a...@ozlabs.ru>: > [...] >> Or "-net" interface is "deprecated" and we do not want even touch it? > > I don't think we should deprecate it. It's easier to use than anything > else. Ahci adoption heavily suffered from not being enabled in -drive > - I don't want that again here.
How exactly is -net nic,netdev=NET-ID,macaddr=MACADDR,model=MODEL,... easier to use than -device DEVNAME,netdev=NET-ID,macaddr=MACADDR,... ? Especially now that -device help shows valid DEVNAMEs under the heading "Network devices".