On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Roger Pau Monne <roger....@citrix.com> wrote: > Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Roger Pau Monne<roger....@citrix.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> I've read from the GSoC/2010 that some work was being done creating a >>> query-netdev QMP command: >>> >>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2010/QMP#query-netdev >>> >>> The status says that "mentor has merged it into his tree", but I cannot >>> see >>> this command anywhere upstream, and it will come really handy for what >>> I'm >>> trying to do, do someone know where this has gone? >> >> >> I checked qemu.git/master and don't see it either. The HMP "info net" >> command lists the net devices but I'm not aware of a QMP equivalent. >> What are you trying to do? > > > On Linux you can pass the name of the tap device you wish to create, and > Qemu honors that, but on BSD systems you have no way of creating a tap > device with a specific name, they are assigned based on the lowest free > number (tap2 for example). > > I need the query-netdev command in order to get the name of the device that > Qemu creates, so I can use it in my scripts afterwards.
Can you use -netdev tap,script=mycallback.sh to do that? It gets passed the interface name as argv[1]. Stefan
