[Qemu-devel] [Bug 589827] Re: QEMU netdev tap type id name is not used on linux host

[Thomas Huth]

The "id=..." is only the QEMU-internal name of the netdev, not the name
of the tap device. So this is not a bug --> closing this ticket.

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  QEMU netdev tap type id name is not used on linux host

Status in QEMU:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Tested with 0.12.3, 0.12.4, and latest git as of 4 jun 2010.
  The new -netdev type seems to ignore manual specifications of tap ifname.

      qemu-system-x86_64 -hda disk.img -netdev tap,id=ids_e0 -device 
e1000,netdev=ids_e0
   **creates tap0 instead of ids_e0.  tap0 passes traffic, ids_e0 doesn't exist
  (I tried -netdev type=tap as well for brevity)

  QEMU creates a tap0 (or appropriate) interface and does not name this
  "ids_e0" as would be expected.  I also tried 'pre' creating the tap
  interface.

  Previous alterantive was
      qemu-system-x86_64 -hda disk.img -net nic,model=e1000,vlan=99 -net 
tap,ifname=ids_e0,vlan=99 
    **creates ids_e0 as expected, and passes traffic as expected.

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