[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] new parameter boot=on|off for -net nic and -device NIC devices

2010-09-21 Thread Bernhard Kohl
Am 19.09.2010 18:07, schrieb ext Michael S. Tsirkin: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 05:46:55PM +0200, Bernhard Kohl wrote: This patch was motivated by the following use case: In our system the VMs usually have 4 NICs, any combination of virtio-net-pci and pci-assign NIC devices. The VMs boot

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] new parameter boot=on|off for -net nic and -device NIC devices

2010-09-21 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 04:18:56PM +0200, Bernhard Kohl wrote: Am 19.09.2010 18:07, schrieb ext Michael S. Tsirkin: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 05:46:55PM +0200, Bernhard Kohl wrote: This patch was motivated by the following use case: In our system the VMs usually have 4 NICs, any combination

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] new parameter boot=on|off for -net nic and -device NIC devices

2010-09-21 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 09/19/2010 11:07 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 05:46:55PM +0200, Bernhard Kohl wrote: This patch was motivated by the following use case: In our system the VMs usually have 4 NICs, any combination of virtio-net-pci and pci-assign NIC devices. The VMs boot via gPXE

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] new parameter boot=on|off for -net nic and -device NIC devices

2010-09-21 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 09/21/2010 09:18 AM, Bernhard Kohl wrote: Am 19.09.2010 18:07, schrieb ext Michael S. Tsirkin: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 05:46:55PM +0200, Bernhard Kohl wrote: This patch was motivated by the following use case: In our system the VMs usually have 4 NICs, any combination of virtio-net-pci

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] new parameter boot=on|off for -net nic and -device NIC devices

2010-09-21 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:16:29AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 09/19/2010 11:07 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 05:46:55PM +0200, Bernhard Kohl wrote: This patch was motivated by the following use case: In our system the VMs usually have 4 NICs, any combination of

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] new parameter boot=on|off for -net nic and -device NIC devices

2010-09-19 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 05:46:55PM +0200, Bernhard Kohl wrote: This patch was motivated by the following use case: In our system the VMs usually have 4 NICs, any combination of virtio-net-pci and pci-assign NIC devices. The VMs boot via gPXE preferably over the pci-assign devices. There is