Re: [Qemu-devel] vhost acceleration broken?

[Rusty Russell]

Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Rusty Russell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>         Using latest kernel and master qemu, the following doesn't use
>> vhost acceleration:
>>
>> sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -machine pc,accel=kvm $ARGS -m 1024 -net 
>> tap,script=/home/rusty/bin/kvm-ifup,downscript=no,vhost=on -net 
>> nic,model=virtio -drive file=$QEMUIMAGE,index=0,media=disk,if=virtio -kernel 
>> arch/x86/boot/bzImage -append "root=/dev/vda1 $KARGS $*"
>
> sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm $ARGS -m 1G -netdev
> tap,script=/home/rusty/bin/kvm-ifup,vhost=on,id=net0 -device
> virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 -drive file=$QEMUIMAGE,if=virtio -kernel
> arch/x86/boot/bzImage -append "root=/dev/vda1 $KARGS $*"
>
> We really ought to strongly deprecate -net because it's misleading.  I
> suspect we can reasonably add a warning for model=virtio saying
> "please don't use this" and eventually remove it entirely.

Thankyou, that works.

I'm sure you've thought more deeply about the qemu cmdline than I have,
so I won't comment.

Cheers,
Rusty.