Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility

[Michael Tokarev]

01.10.2012 17:36, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2012-10-01 15:31, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

>>> Default nic is rtl8139 vs. e1000.
>>
>> Config file (as suggested earlier on this thread).
> 
> If you need to append -config bla, you can also specify the desired NIC
> explicitly - I see no value in the former. If we decide to mangle a
> qemu-kvm command line before calling QEMU binaries, we can adjust this
> variation there. Otherwise it's the same as with all those -kvm*:
> Scripts/management tools will need adjustment.

I don't think there's a need to "manage" this rtl8139 at
all at this level. Let's declare that "qemu-kvm 1.3+" will
switch from rtl8139 to e1000 by default as a more suitable
in modern world, -- the same way as qemu did the switch
earlier, and be done with that.  I think.

Note that this is JUST for "-net nic" users, which should
be the minority (proper usage is -device rtl8139 or -device
e1000, with explicit model).

Thanks,

/mjt