On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:44:02PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> We used to use qemu-ifup to manage the tap which have several limitations:
> 
> 1) If we want to specify a bridge, we must create a customized
> qemu-ifup file as the default script always match the first bridge.
> 2) It's hard to add support for macvtap device.
> 
> So this patch let kvm subtest control the tap creation and setup then
> pass it to qemu-kvm. User could specify the bridge he want to used in
> configuration file.
> 
> The old qemu-ifup style bridge detection is kept, when specify the bridge as
> "auto", it would be automatically detected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <[email protected]>

Have tested those two patches, works for me. It's a convenient resolution.
So I can rebase my patch(private bridge) when this is applied.

Acked-by: Amos Kong <[email protected]>
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