Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v6 0/6] Virtio refactoring.

[Anthony Liguori]

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 03:51:04PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> writes:
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>> > I guess you are saying we want to add bus= option to -net nic?
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>> I absolutely wouldn't object to that.
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>> But I can think of better solutions too.  Like:
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>>     -virtio-net ...
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>> Regards,
>> 
>> Anthony Liguori
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> for most people I think virtio is an implementation detail really. no?

So what is it that people really want to do?

Is tap an implementation detail?  Should we just do -nics 4 and call it
a day?  I'm not being facetious, I really think we should approach it
like this.

We don't need to design our internal interfaces/abstractions such that
they map 1-1 with command line arguments meant for normal users.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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