Re: [libvirt] [PATCH ] (type ioem) adding qemu nic configuration option in to libvirt (XEN)

Daniel P. Berrange wrote: Why can not this be used with any other hypervisor. The situation that I am concerned here is I want my network to be configured but I don't want qemu not to have a emulated nic. That is a user level requirement rather than a hypervisor specific requirement.. If name qemu is the problem. We can name it to be "emulate = false" be more generic, so this way regardless of the hypervisor we are asking not to emulate a nic. and if "emulate = true" with a < model type='whatever model type wanted '> tag . we are asking the whatever hypervisor to emulate a nic with a given model. The problem with using the model tag is in xend, level (type ioem) is different from (model e1000). In any case the (model e1000) to work with in XEN you have to send (type ioem) tag asking it to emulate the nic model What we need to send not to configure a qemu -net bock is something called ( type none) not ( model none ) or (model xen) xend. So what you are suggesting is that if we see a < model type='xen' > treat it a different way so that it will send (type none) to XEND. ? Thats the situation for now. Gihan -- Gihan Munasinghe R&D Team Leader XCalibre Communications Ltd. www.flexiscale.com