Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 0/3]add usb-net support for qemu

On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:03:23PM -0500, Laine Stump wrote: > On 01/03/2013 02:13 AM, Guannan Ren wrote: >> The set of patches fixed some typo in network docs and codes and >> is trying to support usb-net qemu virtual device. >> >> The following is an example for use. >> >> Libvirt XML sample: >> <devices> >> <interface type='user'> >> <mac address='52:54:00:32:6a:91'/> >> <model type='usb-net'/> > Do we really want the model type to be "usb-net"? the "-net" part is > already implicit in the type of device, and there is no requirement that > it needs to exactly match the qemu commandline parameter (although I > suppose that's normally the case). As a matter of fact, <type > model='virtio'/> ends up being equivalent to "-device virtio-net-pci". Indeed, we should really base the name on the actual hardware since there can be many many different USB NICs implemented. Finding a model name in the usb.ids file is a good place to start Daniel