Re: [Qemu-devel] What's the next QEMU version after 2.9 ? (or: when is a good point in time to get rid of old interfaces)

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> >> We probably want something like
> >>   -qom-set-property {objpath|alias}.prop=value
> 
> Makes sense to me.
> 
> We should be able to desugar -net, ... to -qom-set-property then.
> However, the desugaring would be machine-specific in general.

Yes.  Establishing rules for alias names for builtin devices should
reduce the pain, and allow stuff like this:

  -netdev user,id=mynetdev \
  -qom-set-property buildin-nic0.netdev=mynetdev

We probably also want a shorter name for -qom-set-property, and maybe
also syntax which allows to set multiple properties in one go, so the
command line doesn't become too long.

cheers,
  Gerd