Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.12 2/2] net: Remove the deprecated -tftp, -bootp, -redir and -smb options

[Peter Maydell]

On 7 December 2017 at 18:02, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> These options likely do not work as expected as soon as the user
> tries to use more than one network interface at once. The parameters
> have been marked as deprecated since QEMU v2.6, so users had plenty
> of time to move their scripts to the new syntax. Time to remove the
> old parameters now.

The deprecation message says:
               error_report("The -redir option is deprecated. "
                            "Please use '-netdev user,hostfwd=...' instead.");

How does this work for systems which have embedded ethernet
devices and can't use -netdev ?

This is one reason I haven't bothered to update my scripts yet
(the other being that the deprecation message is basically
saying "go and do a bunch of research into command line
syntax" rather than "replace your current option '-redir xyz'
with '-netdev user,hostfwd=x,y:z'"...)

The message also doesn't point out that if you were previously
using -net + -redir you need to switch to -device + -netdev,
since -net + -netdev doesn't work AFAIK. Which is more
upheaval to a working command line setup.

thanks
-- PMM