On 15/12/15 17:17, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 15 December 2015 at 12:51, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Honestly, I still do not believe that they will be removed. They are >> little more than syntactic sugar at this point. > > If they're just syntactic sugar, what is the new-style command > line mechanism for configuring boards with embedded network > controller devices? Last time I looked at this that was just > impossible...and as long as it is, you can't get rid of any > of the backend -net config either, because it has to be either > all -net or all new-style and not a mix (I think).
No, you can use "-netdev user,id=mynet -net nic,netdev=mynet" for example to wire an embedded network controller to a netdev device, so that's not a problem anymore. Thomas
