[Xen-devel] [PATCH][IOEMU] remove default NIC in qemu when no vif configured

["Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@xxxxxxxxx>]

Latest QEMU would add a NIC device by default, unless specify the "-nic none".  
So end user still get a unusable NIC even no vif in the config file.

This simple patch can fix it.

Signed-off-by: Zhai Edwin <edwin.zhai@xxxxxxxxx>

diff -r 37ebd7eae0be tools/python/xen/xend/image.py
--- a/tools/python/xen/xend/image.py    Tue Apr 15 17:23:39 2008 +0800
+++ b/tools/python/xen/xend/image.py    Tue Aug 05 16:04:08 2008 +0800
@@ -777,6 +777,10 @@ class HVMImageHandler(ImageHandler):
             ret.append("tap,vlan=%d,ifname=tap%d.%d,bridge=%s" %
                        (nics, self.vm.getDomid(), nics-1, bridge))
 
+        if nics == 0:
+            ret.append("-net")
+            ret.append("none")
+
         return ret
 
     def getDeviceModelArgs(self, restore = False):



-- 
best rgds,
edwin

qemu_no_nic_fix.patch
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