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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:17:15 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Jens Osterkamp <jens@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Looks like Or has abandoned it.  I have an updated version which works
> with new APIs, etc.  Let me post it and we'll go from there.
>
>   
>> I'm generally inclined to oppose the functionality as I don't think it  
>> offers any advantages over the existing backends.
>>     
>
> I patch it in and use it all the time.  It's much easier to setup
> on a random machine than a bridged config.
>   

Having two things that do the same thing is just going to lead to user 
confusion.  If the problem is tap is too hard to setup, we should try to 
simplify tap configuration.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori