Peter Maydell <[email protected]> writes:

> On 18 January 2016 at 15:55, Alex Williamson <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 15:54 +0100, Eric Auger wrote:
>>> On 01/18/2016 03:14 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> > ...but presumably the x86 folks have been here before us
>>> > and know how this should work :-)
>>
>> No, we haven't.  vfio-pci devices are opaque on x86, we don't
>> know or care that they're NICs or HBAs or GPUs or whatever.
>>  If you don't want the default NIC, turn it off with -net none.
>>  Don't want graphics, -nographics.  Default QEMU devices may be
>> useful for the commandline, but do they really matter in
>> practical use?
>
> "User is expected to use -net none" is a fine answer to "how
> this should work"...
>
> (I was thrown off track because http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking
> doesn't document '-net none', and also -net is the legacy
> syntax -- is there a -netdev equivalent?)

-nodefaults ;-P

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