On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:59:25 +0200 Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Il 25/05/2012 14:53, Luiz Capitulino ha scritto: > >> > I agree it would be nice to drop entirely but I don't feel happy doing > >> > that to users who might have QEMU buried in scripts somewhere. One > >> > day they upgrade packages and suddenly their stuff doesn't work > >> > anymore. > > This is very similar to kqemu and I don't think we regret having dropped it. > > It's not. kqemu was putting maintainance burden, the aim of this patch > is exactly to isolate the feature to command-line parsing and a magic > net client. If you don't use -net, the new code is absolutely dead, > unlike kqemu. Let me quote Stefan on this thread: """ The point of this patch series is to remove the special-case net.c code for the legacy "vlan" feature. Today's code makes it harder to implement a clean QOM model and is a burden for the net subsystem in general """
