-net name= will be deprecated in QEMU 3.1: commit 101625a4d4ac7e96227a156bc5f6d21a9cc383cd net: Deprecate the "name" parameter of -net git describe: v3.0.0-791-g101625a4d4 Use the id option instead, supported since QEMU 1.2: commit 6687b79d636cd60ed9adb1177d0d946b58fa7717 convert net_client_init() to OptsVisitor git describe: v1.0-3564-g6687b79d63 contains: v1.2.0-rc0~142^2~8 Thankfully, libvirt only uses -net for non-PCI, non-virtio NICs on ARM. Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/arm-vexpressa9-basic.args | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c index d77cf8c2d6..269276f2f9 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c @@ -3516,7 +3516,7 @@ qemuBuildLegacyNicStr(virDomainNetDefPtr net) net->info.alias, (net->model ? ",model=" : ""), (net->model ? net->model : ""), - (net->info.alias ? ",name=" : ""), + (net->info.alias ? ",id=" : ""), (net->info.alias ? net->info.alias : ""))); return str; } diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/arm-vexpressa9-basic.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/arm-vexpressa9-basic.args index 90661d8b55..b925baa0e0 100644 --- a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/arm-vexpressa9-basic.args +++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/arm-vexpressa9-basic.args @@ -27,6 +27,6 @@ server,nowait \ -usb \ -drive file=/arm.raw,format=raw,if=sd,index=0 \ -netdev user,id=hostnet0 \ --net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:09:a4:37,netdev=hostnet0,model=lan9118,name=net0 \ +-net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:09:a4:37,netdev=hostnet0,model=lan9118,id=net0 \ -chardev pty,id=charserial0 \ -serial chardev:charserial0