On 15 December 2015 at 16:33, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 15/12/15 17:17, Peter Maydell wrote: >> If they're just syntactic sugar, what is the new-style command >> line mechanism for configuring boards with embedded network >> controller devices? Last time I looked at this that was just >> impossible...and as long as it is, you can't get rid of any >> of the backend -net config either, because it has to be either >> all -net or all new-style and not a mix (I think). > > No, you can use "-netdev user,id=mynet -net nic,netdev=mynet" for > example to wire an embedded network controller to a netdev device, so > that's not a problem anymore.
Oh good. We should probably document this on http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking somewhere. thanks -- PMM