Re: Specifying names for tap interfaces

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:24:37AM +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> Then we end up with the same problem, since xl needs to know the name of 
> the created device (to launch the appropriate hotplug scripts), and 
> there's not way to fetch that from Qemu.

I thought I saw command line options to invoke qemu that pass the tap
ifname, or even open a fd and just pass the number?

Something like:

   qemu -net tap,ifname=tap14
or
   qemu -net tap,fd=4

and you could pass the name to the script vie environment vars.

Marin