On Sunday 21 August 2005 01:36, jamal wrote: > This attached patch is intended for allowing automated clever scripting > for networking (tuntap only). Please read and apply if possible. > > It does the following: > a) allow for specifying the guest netdevice interface MAC address > (in addition to keeping the old functionality of specifying just > the first one and letting qemu decide what subsequent ones should be) > So now you can say something along the lines of: > "-nics 2 -macaddr0 00:11:a:0:2:19 -macaddr1 00:11:a:0:1:19" > We allow upto 6 such MAC addresses to be specified. Maybe theres > a more clever way to achieve this.
Maybe a comma separated list of MAC addresses. e.g. "-nics 2 macaddr 00:11:a:0:2:19,00:11:a:0:1:19" Whatever you do, you should really support up to MAX_NICS addresses. > b) allows to specify an opaque integer to be passed to the host script. > Such an integer is useful if you are creating many NICs and you want > to do different things depending on what this extra parameter is; > example you may wanna add/del a route for one but not other > syntax is of the form: "-ID1 1 -ID2 2" > The IDs are mapped to the NICs. i.e ID1 maps to the first NIC > and ID2 to the second etc. If you dont specify an ID, a 0 is used. > Just like NICS/MACs we allow upto 6 such IDs to be specified. Wouldn't it make more sense to just pass the mac address and/or the NIC number? Introducing yet another value seems unnecessarily complicated. Paul _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
