Re: [Qemu-devel] Missing vhost=on support on -netdev bridge.

[Corey Bryant]

On 01/09/2014 11:20 AM, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 01/08/2014 05:29 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 08:59:56PM +0100, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> > > Looks like netdev bridge have no support for vhost=on switch. Would
> > > be ince if that could be added.
> >
> > Try -netdev tap,helper=/path/to/qemu-bridge-helper,vhost=on,...
>
> Sadly, -netdev tap does not support br= so I can't specify the bridge
> for helper.
>
> And I can't pass the '--use-br=' argument for helper= tap's option so no
> workaround here.
>
> -- Piotr.

You should be able to pass a command line like this:

  -net tap,helper="/usr/local/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper --br=br0"

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Regards,
Corey Bryant