Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/8] Improvements and clean-ups related to -net

2018-02-19 Thread Thomas Huth
On 19.02.2018 14:29, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/19/2018 03:15 AM, Thomas Huth wrote: > >> The last patch finally makes "-net" less prominent in our qemu docs, >> e.g. by replacing the examples that contain "-net" with "-netdev". > > Minor request: while doing this, can we update the documentation

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/8] Improvements and clean-ups related to -net

2018-02-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/19/2018 03:15 AM, Thomas Huth wrote: The last patch finally makes "-net" less prominent in our qemu docs, e.g. by replacing the examples that contain "-net" with "-netdev". Minor request: while doing this, can we update the documentation to mention "--netdev" and "--n" everywhere we

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/8] Improvements and clean-ups related to -net

2018-02-19 Thread Thomas Huth
"-net" is a legacy option that often causes confusion and misconfigurations for the users, since most people are not aware of the underlying "vlan" (i.e. hub) concept that is used for this parameter. The prefered way of configuring your network stack is to use "--netdev" instead, which gives you a