On 13.01.2018 01:34, Shaun Reitan wrote: > When starting vm's with '-netdev bridge,id=net0,br=br0' each vm is given > a tapX interface name and from what I can tell, there is no simple way > to figure out which interface belongs to which VM. > > I'd like to see a name option added to it which would be passed along to > the qemu-bridge-helper. Something like '-netdev > bridge,id=net0,br=br0,name=vm1net0' or '-netdev > bridge,id=net0,br=br0,ifname=vm1net0' > > Any reason why setting the tap's interface name was left out before I go > attempting to patch this functionality in? Or maybe is there a fast and > simple way to get the tap interface of the VM
I think it should be possible to specify the name of the tap interface via the "ifname=" parameter, e.g.: -netdev tap,ifname=tap2 In case you already started QEMU without that parameter, you can look up the tapX name via the "info network" monitor command. HTH, Thomas
