Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rename vlan to vnet and mark vlan as deprecated

[Luca Bigliardi]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:

Hi,
thank you for considering my proposal.

> I think this may cause minor confusion for a very small number of  
> people, but for most people, who probably have no idea what 802.1q is,  
> it never is an issue.

I brought this idea because qemu/kvm + vde users are sometimes confused by
qemu option and vde vlan (which is 802.1Q) and they come to us looking for
help.
I totally agree in writing better documentation, but probably having more
intuitive (or less ambiguous) command line options is a good idea.
In this case I've proposed to change qemu option because nowadays the most
common vlan implementation is 802.1Q which is then usually referred as
VLAN.


Thank you,

Luca



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