Re: [Qemu-devel] vhost acceleration broken?

[Anthony Liguori]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Rusty Russell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Or something vaguely understandable by a human?
>
> OK.  It seems to me that each net device has a host side and a guest
> side, which you can mix and match.  So the commandline should reflect
> that explicitly:
>
>         qemu -hostdev net,[tap|user|bridge|socket|vde],....  -guestdev 
> net,....
>
> If you have a built-in net device on your emulated board, you've got one
> implied -guestdev net.  And similar principles apply to other things
> like consoles and disks.

See, we have this:

qemu -netdev tap,...  -device virtio-net-pci,...

> Now, guest and host terms may suck.  But please pick one terminology and
> use it *everywhere*.  Documentation, code and cmdline.

But *this* is the problem.  Our documentation (man page, --help,
qemu-doc.texi) hasn't been touched since the beginning.  I get the
feedback, will take a look at it for 1.7.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Thanks,
> Rusty.