this would be really useful for testing resilliance and auto fall-over systems in a vm, to be able to quickly virtually "unplug" a network connection.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1659267 Title: It's not possible to start a VM with a network cable unplugged Status in QEMU: New Bug description: There should be a command line (sub)option to unplug a network cable. While from the monitor interface I can issue: set_link virtio-net-pci.0 off There's no way to fire a VM from command line with that cable already unplugged. As an example, virtualbox can do it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1659267/+subscriptions
