On 5/15/19 7:54 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > We don't want to deprecate qemu-bridge-helper while libvirt has a > sensible use for it. > > We can still deprecate -netdev tap parameter "helper" and -netdev bridge > entirely. > > Once they're gone, qemu-bridge-helper wull have no user within QEMU. We > could discuss moving it to libvirt then, but I doubt it'll be worth the > trouble.
At present, one can do reasonable testing of QEMU by itself, without needing a management layer on top. If you remove -netdev bridge, then that is no longer possible. (I discount slirp as reasonable; things Just Work with bridging.) I am opposed to requiring libvirt in order to test QEMU. r~
