Re: [Qemu-devel] Using qemu command not able launch VM

[John Snow]

On 10/07/2017 03:53 AM, Koushik Dutta wrote:
> Hi All (qemu members),
> 
> I installed qemu utility in my host machine. I want to start Virtual
> machine using qemu command.
> 
> My host machine: Intel-X86
> Script for launching VM :
> 
> T=/home/koushik/vpp/cloud_ubuntu_img
>     sudo qemu-system-i386  -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp
> sockets=1,cpus=4,cores=2 -cpu host \
>     -vga none -nographic \
>     -kernel $T/vmlinuz-4.4.0-96-generic --append "console=ttyAMA0
> root=/dev/vda rw"  \
>     -drive file=$T/custom32.img,if=virtio,aio=threads \
>     -chardev socket,id=char1,path=/tmp/sock1.sock \
>     -netdev type=vhost-user,id=mynet1,chardev=char1,vhostforce\
>     -device virtio-net-pci,mac=00:00:00:00:00:01,netdev=mynet1 \
>     -object
> memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=1024M,mem-path=/dev/hugepages,share=on \
>     -numa node,memdev=mem -mem-prealloc \
>     #-debugcon file:debug.log -global isa-debugcon.iobase=0x402
> 
> 
> Bug:  Invalid netdev type
> 
> Please let me know where i did wrong.
> Please help me.
> Thanks to all in advance.
> 
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Koushik
> 

type isn't a named parameter, it's positional.

-netdev vhost-user,foo=bar

Please take a look at the output from -help. look for "vhost-user."

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