On 18 January 2016 at 15:55, Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 15:54 +0100, Eric Auger wrote: >> On 01/18/2016 03:14 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> > ...but presumably the x86 folks have been here before us >> > and know how this should work :-) > > No, we haven't. vfio-pci devices are opaque on x86, we don't > know or care that they're NICs or HBAs or GPUs or whatever. > If you don't want the default NIC, turn it off with -net none. > Don't want graphics, -nographics. Default QEMU devices may be > useful for the commandline, but do they really matter in > practical use?
"User is expected to use -net none" is a fine answer to "how this should work"... (I was thrown off track because http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking doesn't document '-net none', and also -net is the legacy syntax -- is there a -netdev equivalent?) thanks -- PMM
