Am 02.11.2013 um 12:51 schrieb Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>:
> Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> writes: > >> Am 01.11.2013 um 03:52 schrieb Alexey Kardashevskiy <a...@ozlabs.ru>: > [...] >>> Or "-net" interface is "deprecated" and we do not want even touch it? >> >> I don't think we should deprecate it. It's easier to use than anything >> else. Ahci adoption heavily suffered from not being enabled in -drive >> - I don't want that again here. > > How exactly is > > -net nic,netdev=NET-ID,macaddr=MACADDR,model=MODEL,... > > easier to use than > > -device DEVNAME,netdev=NET-ID,macaddr=MACADDR,... > > ? > > Especially now that -device help shows valid DEVNAMEs under the heading > "Network devices". The same way -device ahci -drive ...,if=none -device ide-drive,... Is harder than -drive if=ahci. Users didn't even realize ahci support was in the code base... Alex
