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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:49:44 +0100
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Subject: 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)
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
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On 27 March 2017 at 13:01, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be nice to get rid of the legacy -net option in 3.0.0.  I have
> added it and included pointers to loose ends.  I think this is doable
> but will require some time to achieve.

What's the syntax for using -netdev with embedded network
devices that you can't create with -device ?
(We should document this at
http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Documentation/Networking)

thanks
-- PMM