Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] qemu-doc: Rework the network options chapter to make "-net" less prominent

[Jason Wang]

On 2018年03月27日 21:16, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > >    # launch vde switch
> > >    vde_switch -F -sock /tmp/myswitch
> > >    # launch QEMU instance
> > > -qemu-system-i386 linux.img -net nic -net vde,sock=/tmp/myswitch
> > > +qemu-system-i386 linux.img -nic vde,sock=/tmp/myswitch
> > I think we should use -netdev here?
> I've had that in the original version of this patch, but Paolo suggested
> to use -nic instead since this is more "user-friendly":
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-02/msg05258.html
>
> I personally don't mind whether we use "-netdev" or "-nic" in the
> examples, as long as we finally get rid of "-net" there...

Right.

> Please let me
> know which way you prefer, so I can respin the patch again if necessary.
>
>   Thomas

But I think we should be consistent: in your patch some "-net" was 
replaced by "-nic", but others were replaced by "-netdev".

Thanks