[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] QMP: Introduce query-netdevices documentation

[Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> $ qemu -netdev tap,id=tap0 -device e1000,netdev=tap0
>>>
>>> This makes a 1:1 relation. So clearly tap0 is a host device, e1000.0
>>> will be a guest device, and they are connected.
>>
>> Yes.  I'd want separate queries for each, or perhaps a single query that
>> returns
>>
>> { 'hostdev': some-object-with-host-device-properties-only, 'nic':
>> some-object-that-describes-the-guest-nic }
>
> We need a query-netdev and then info qdm already provides the guest nic
> properties.  Just filter out devices that have a netdev property.
>

How about this small draft:

Possible values for "type": tap, user, vde and socket. The 'info'
object contains all the parameters available via -netdev type,args.

Notice: vlan is still there, unless the support for it is removed, IMHO.

-> { "execute": "query-netdev" }
<- {
      "return": [
         {
            "device": "tap.0",
            "vlan": 0,
            "type": "tap",
            "info": {
               "script": "/etc/qemu-ifup",
               "downscript": "/etc/qemu-ifdown",
               "ifname": "tap0",
            },
         {
            "device": "user.0",
            "type": "user",
            "info": {
               "net": "10.0.2.0",
               "netmask": "255.255.255.0"
            },
         },