On 10/07/2017 03:53 AM, Koushik Dutta wrote: > Hi All (qemu members), > > I installed qemu utility in my host machine. I want to start Virtual > machine using qemu command. > > My host machine: Intel-X86 > Script for launching VM : > > T=/home/koushik/vpp/cloud_ubuntu_img > sudo qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp > sockets=1,cpus=4,cores=2 -cpu host \ > -vga none -nographic \ > -kernel $T/vmlinuz-4.4.0-96-generic --append "console=ttyAMA0 > root=/dev/vda rw" \ > -drive file=$T/custom32.img,if=virtio,aio=threads \ > -chardev socket,id=char1,path=/tmp/sock1.sock \ > -netdev type=vhost-user,id=mynet1,chardev=char1,vhostforce\ > -device virtio-net-pci,mac=00:00:00:00:00:01,netdev=mynet1 \ > -object > memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=1024M,mem-path=/dev/hugepages,share=on \ > -numa node,memdev=mem -mem-prealloc \ > #-debugcon file:debug.log -global isa-debugcon.iobase=0x402 > > > Bug: Invalid netdev type > > Please let me know where i did wrong. > Please help me. > Thanks to all in advance. > > > Thanks & Regards, > Koushik >
type isn't a named parameter, it's positional. -netdev vhost-user,foo=bar Please take a look at the output from -help. look for "vhost-user." --js